TikTok offers feature to avoid seizure triggers

TikTok has announced a new feature that will allow people with photosensitive epilepsy to skip videos that could trigger seizures.

It comes a few months after it began labelling videos featuring effects such as flashing lights.

The Skip All option, to be rolled out in the next few weeks, will allow users to set their profile to not show these videos.

An epilepsy charity said it hoped other social-media sites would follow suit.

Users who come across a photosensitive video will receive a notification inviting them to skip all similar videos in future.

TikTok said it wanted to make the platform “accessible for everyone”.

“Given the visual nature of our platform, we’re beginning this work with a series of photosensitivity features,” it added.

BBC