How to stop seeing certain videos on TikTok
To stop seeing certain videos on TikTok, add the words and hashtags to its keyword filter (Settings and privacy, then Content preferences, then Filter video keywords), and press and hold any video you don’t want, then tap Not interested. If your whole feed has gone wrong, you can refresh For You and start over.
Updated November 2, 2026These steps are for the TikTok app. Menu names can vary a little between versions.
1. Filter video keywords
- Tap Profile, then the menu (three lines) at the top right.
- Tap Settings and privacy, then Content preferences.
- Tap Filter video keywords, then Add keyword.
- Type a word or hashtag, choose whether to filter it from your For You feed, your Following feed or both, and save.
The filter looks at a video’s description and stickers. Since 2025, TikTok has also offered smart keyword filters, which catch similar words too: filter “remodeling” and it also filters “renovation”. Add each spelling and nickname you can think of anyway.
2. Press and hold: Not interested
When a video you don’t want comes up, press and hold it and tap Not interested. TikTok shows fewer videos like it. It’s one video at a time, so it helps most when you do it every time.
3. Manage topics
In Settings and privacy, then Content preferences, open Manage topics. Sliders let you turn broad topics, like sports or travel, up or down in your For You feed. They change how often a topic appears, not whether it does.
4. Refresh your For You feed
If your feed has gone so far wrong that tweaking won’t fix it:
- Go to Settings and privacy, then Content preferences.
- Tap Refresh your For You feed, then Continue, and confirm.
TikTok then recommends as if you’d just signed up, and learns again from what you watch. It can’t be undone, and it resets the recommendations you liked along with the ones you didn’t.
What TikTok’s filters miss
- Videos that never say the word. The keyword filter reads descriptions and stickers. A video whose topic is only spoken, shown, or captioned vaguely (“wait for the end”) gets through.
- “Not interested” is one video. The next creator’s version of the same thing still appears.
- Topic sliders don’t remove anything. They turn a topic down, never off.
- A refresh starts the learning over. Watch the same kinds of videos again and the feed learns them again.
If the problem is less what you see and more how long you scroll, see how to stop doomscrolling.
On a computer, filter TikTok by meaning
If you watch TikTok on a computer, Remedy can help. It’s a Chrome extension that works on tiktok.com out of the box. Describe what you don’t want, like “no diet talk” or “no spoilers for the show I’m watching”, and it removes those videos as you scroll, going by what each caption and its hashtags are about, not just exact words. The popup lists everything it took out.
It works in Chrome on a computer only, not in the TikTok app, so keep using TikTok’s own filters on your phone. The same filter covers YouTube Shorts, Instagram, X and Reddit too.
Questions
How do I block a hashtag on TikTok?
Add it in Settings and privacy, under Content preferences, then Filter video keywords. Videos with it in their description or stickers are filtered from the feeds you choose.
Does “Not interested” work on TikTok?
It tells TikTok to show fewer videos like that one. It doesn’t block the topic, so similar videos can still appear.
What happens when you refresh your For You feed?
TikTok starts recommending as if you’d just signed up, then learns again from what you watch. You can’t undo it.