Today, we will tell you everything you need to know to fight the popular TikTok shadowbans when you’re working with UBT. We will teach you how to identify a TikTok Shadowban, why it happens, and if you can remove it and protect your account.
What is a shadow ban and how to identify it
A TikTok shadowban is a type of ban (if you want to call it that way), that prevents videos from an account from being on the public feed, so they stay hidden like a shadow. The content will only be seen by followers, if the account has any, preventing the opportunity to attract new users from UBT, reducing the amount of likes, views, and the chances of getting new followers.
Please note that UBT is shareware traffic, and it can also be obtained from short videos.
TikTok won’t notify about a Shadowban, unlike the regular ban. This means that the only way to find out is to track your videos’s stats, and you will a Pro account for it.
Go to your account settings, then to “Account Management” and tap on “Switch to Pro Account”, select your content category and genre. After doing all this, the “Analytics” section will appear right away.
You can detect a TikTok Shadownban by the following:
- Video views are 0.
- The account is brand-new and it has started to post several videos on it.
- Your comments, and other people’s comments are not appearing or getting deleted.
There’s only 1 type of Shadowban on TikTok . if the video views are low after getting shadowbanned once, it ain’t a ban, you just need to keep uploading videos. Shadowbans are mostly a new-accounts issue.
TikTok Shadowban: Reasons and mistakes
You weren’t anonymous enough. You probably forgot to set up everything correctly, maybe you create the accounts in a bad way or your proxy is actually a low quality one, all of that, leads to a Shadownban. Especially if it’s related to an IP Address, so try to get a proper high-quality proxy.
Acting Suspicious: Don’t use bots, do not get into mass liking, or spam comments from your accounts. If you do this before uploading any video, it’s very probably that you’ll get shadowbanned.
Unloading from the gallery: TikTok Shadowbans usually happens when you removed videos directly from the gallery. Now, if you do it using the app itself, the chances of getting shadowbanned will be lower.
Too many hashtags: TikTok’s algorithm hates when you use too many hashtags or just copy them and paste them when they don’t even match your content’s niche. The number of hastags that you should be using shouldn’t be more than 10.
Re-uploading and copying: Downloading and reuploading videos already existing on the platforms, might be a one-way ticket for TikTok to shadowban you. Be careful on the music and video itself, edit it, or just don’t use other people’s content, as a copyright infringment will lead you to a shadowban as well.
How to remove TikTok shadowban?
TikTok Shadowbans happens on the algorithm’s hands. Appealing them with TikTok’s technical support is just a waste of time as the chances of a successful unban directly depend on the severity of the mistakes made.
Basically, you can’t remove a TikTok Shadowban by yourself, as you can’t neither speed up the unban process. All you can do, is keep uploading content and pray for the ban to leave by itself.
If you’re working with freemium traffic, speed is priority, so your best shot is to create a new account after reinstalling TikTok with a new IP address (use a high-quality proxy), and make a unique video. Starting from scrath it’s way easier than trying to recover a shadowbanned account.
Do not fall into the trap of trying to make your “act normally” after getting shadowbanned, the worst thing you can is start to mass-liking or mass-commenting. Your shadowban will be come into a permaban faster than you think.
FAQ
It’s possible to 100% protect account from a shadowban?
Definitely not, specially if you’re working with multiple accounts. When it comes to shadowbans, randomness also plays a role, which is exactly why a TikTok Shadowban can happen even to the best accounts.
Can shadowbans happens to accounts that are already working?
No. If after uploading a video, it gets around 50 to 100 views, the account will not face a shadowban.
It’s a drop on views a shadowban indicator?
No, this is part of TikTok’s feed, a drop on views is normal, just keep uploading content and it will eventually get to the feed and be visualized by other users.
On average, how long a shadown last?
There’s not an exact time, on average, it often lasts around 2 week, but that depends on the severity of the actions and mistakes made.