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How to Add a Link to Your TikTok Bio (and Why You Can't)

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To add a link to your TikTok bio, tap Profile in the TikTok app, tap Edit profile, tap Add next to Links, then follow the steps to link your website. The catch is eligibility: TikTok allows a website link only if you have at least 1,000 followers or a Verified Business Account.

If the Add button isn’t there, this guide works through why: TikTok’s own wording on who qualifies, a checklist of causes, the business-verification route and its trade-offs, and the link types TikTok refuses. For the rest of your profile and the app, see our beginner’s guide to TikTok.

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Four steps in the TikTok app, once your account qualifies. These are TikTok’s:

In the app:

  1. In the TikTok app, tap Profile at the bottom.
  2. Tap Edit profile.
  3. Next to Links, tap Add.
  4. Follow the steps to link your website.

Checked against TikTok Help Center: How to add a link to your TikTok profile.

TikTok publishes these steps for the app only. The link opens in TikTok’s in-app browser, and TikTok recommends direct links, a point that matters if you’re planning a link-in-bio page (more on that below).

Accounts with at least 1,000 followers, and Verified Business Accounts. In TikTok’s words: “You can add a link to a website on your TikTok profile if you have at least 1,000 followers, or if you have a Verified Business Account.” TikTok states no age requirement for the link. Checked against TikTok Help Center: How to add a link to your TikTok profile

The rule makes more sense next to TikTok’s account types. Its Help Center lists three: the General TikTok Account (also called a Personal Account), the Verified Business Account and the Organization Account. There’s no separate Creator account in that list. Checked against TikTok Help Center: Account types on TikTok

Usually because the account doesn’t meet TikTok’s rule yet. Open Edit profile and look for Links with an Add button next to it. If you can’t add a website, find your situation in this checklist:

  1. A General (personal) account under 1,000 followers. The link isn’t available yet. You have two legitimate routes: keep growing until you pass 1,000 (our guide to getting more TikTok followers covers organic ways), or, if you run a business, get a Verified Business Account (next section).
  2. A Business Account that never finished verification. TikTok may ask a Business Account to verify its business, and one that doesn’t may be converted to a General TikTok Account automatically. That puts it back under the 1,000-follower rule.
  3. A link that opens another social app. TikTok no longer supports those; use the platform’s website address instead (see the link rules below).
  4. You’re on a computer. TikTok publishes the steps for the TikTok app only.

If TikTok converted your Business Account, these are its steps to get the Verified Business Account features back:

In the app: To regain Verified Business Account features:

  1. In the TikTok app, tap Profile at the bottom.
  2. Look for the prompt or banner about business verification, then tap Verify.
  3. Follow the steps to submit your business information and documents.

Checked against TikTok Help Center: What could cause your existing Business Account to change to a General TikTok account?.

Through business verification, in the TikTok app: Settings and privacy, then Account, then Business verification. TikTok’s Business Help Center says verification is optional, open to accounts of all types and sizes, and available only in the markets it lists, which include the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Checked against TikTok Business Help Center: About business verification

In the app:

  1. In the TikTok app, tap Profile at the bottom.
  2. Tap the Menu ☰ button at the top, then select Settings and privacy.
  3. Tap Account.
  4. Tap Business verification, then follow the steps to switch your account type.

Checked against TikTok Help Center: How to change your account type.

Verification can take up to 5 business days, and the documents TikTok asks for vary by location. Checked against TikTok Help Center: What could cause your existing Business Account to change to a General TikTok account? Can’t find Business verification? TikTok’s Creator Academy calls the same route Switch to Business Account, so the label you see may depend on your app version. Checked against TikTok Creator Academy: Choosing the right TikTok account for you: Business vs. Personal (last updated Jun 17, 2026)

Only if you’re actually a business. TikTok advises against switching back and forth between a Verified Business Account and a General account, because your verification won’t be saved. It also recommends two separate accounts if you want to promote a business and post personal content. Checked against TikTok Help Center: How to change your account type

Here’s what changes when you switch:

Our guide to TikTok account types compares them in full, and TikTok Promote has rules of its own.

Links that open or log people into other social media apps. TikTok says it “no longer supports links that open or log you into other social media apps”, but you can still add links that direct people to those platforms’ websites. Checked against TikTok Help Center: How to add a link to your TikTok profile So the web address of your YouTube channel or Instagram profile can be your website link, while a link built to open another app can’t. YouTube puts a video’s links in its description instead: see how to add links to a YouTube description.

If a link on another creator’s profile looks wrong, TikTok lets you report it from the in-app browser:

In the app:

  1. In the TikTok app, tap the link from the creator's profile.
  2. Tap the More options ... button at the top.
  3. Tap Report, then follow the steps to submit a report.

Checked against TikTok Help Center: How to report a link from someone's profile.

Can you use a link-in-bio page (like Linktree) on TikTok?

Yes. A link-in-bio page is a website, so it can be your profile link. The catch is TikTok’s in-app browser: TikTok limits browsing through chains of external links and may prompt people to open the page in their device’s browser instead. It also recommends direct links. Checked against TikTok Help Center: How to add a link to your TikTok profile

So if most of your posts send people to one page, link that page directly. If you need several destinations, keep the link-in-bio page short, so the first tap lands where people expect. Our link in bio explainer covers how these pages work across apps, and the free UTM generator tags your link so your analytics can tell TikTok visits apart from other traffic. For the words around the link, the free TikTok bio generator drafts bio lines you can edit.

Planning posts around your link? This is what Outfeed AI does, and doesn’t do, on TikTok:

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1,000, if you have a General (personal) TikTok account. TikTok’s rule is at least 1,000 followers or a Verified Business Account, so a business that completes TikTok’s business verification can add a website link without reaching that number.

TikTok doesn’t say so. Its Help Center rule for adding a website link to your profile is at least 1,000 followers or a Verified Business Account, and it states no age requirement for the link.

Can I add my Instagram or YouTube to my TikTok bio?

Yes, as a website link. TikTok no longer supports links that open or log you into other social media apps, but it says you can still add links that send people to those platforms’ websites. The 1,000-follower or Verified Business Account rule applies to that link too.

TikTok documents it only in the app. Its steps start with tapping Profile in the TikTok app, then Edit profile, then Add next to Links, and it publishes no web or desktop steps for this setting.

In the TikTok app, tap the link on the creator’s profile, tap the More options button at the top, then tap Report and follow the steps to submit a report.

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