TikTok’s experiment with Snapchat-style tales is continuous, with the corporate additional rolling out the function to a bigger group of customers at present. If you’ve gotten the function, you’ll be greeted with a brand new banner while you launch the app encouraging you to create a narrative.

In an announcement provided to TechCrunch, TikTok famous that “Currently, we’re expanding a pilot test, which provides creators with additional formats to bring their creative ideas to life for the TikTok community,” though that doesn’t say what number of customers are at the moment included within the check or what the longer term rollout of the function will seem like.

Adding a video or photograph to a narrative works extraordinarily equally to taking a photograph or video for TikTok’s commonplace function, with the identical modifying instruments, results, filters, and sounds. Unlike an everyday TikTok video, although, tales gained’t present up instantly in your profile or feed and disappear after 24 hours.

TikTok tales are additionally lacking a significant function that Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Whatsapp, and others all provide — critically, it lacks the scrolling bar of tales from accounts you observe to faucet by (though photos from TikTok’s earlier check present that the corporate was experimenting with a pop-over vertical window that may have served an identical perform).

Right now, although, the one option to see a TikTok story (assuming you’ve been chosen to attempt the function out) is to see a blue-circled profile image on a video you’re watching. Tap it, and also you’ll launch you straight into the story feed for that consumer. You may also see the identical blue circle on a consumer’s profile for those who’re viewing it, and tapping the profile image there may even allow you to view the story.

Still, given the recognition of tales in different social media apps and TikTok’s ongoing assessments, it looks like a proper rollout of the function to your entire TikTok consumer base is much less a query of “if?” and extra “when?”.