How to Change Your TikTok Username (Rules, Limits, and Profile Link Explained)

How to Change Your TikTok Username (Rules, Limits, and Profile Link Explained)

TikTok lets you change your username once every 30 days, and changing it also changes your profile link. The film opens TikTok, goes to the profile, opens Edit profile and shows the Username and Name fields and their limits. No new name is typed or saved on camera - the typing, the Save tap and the confirmation are described in the narration only.

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SystemAndroid
AppTikTok
Last verifiedNovember 13, 2026

Every screenshot below is taken from the actual recording on this device — no stock images.

Steps

Open TikTok

Open TikTok from your app drawer. The film starts on the home screen, swipes to the second page of apps and taps the TikTok icon.

Open TikTok

Go to your profile

Tap Profile in the bottom-right corner to open your profile.

Tap Edit profile

Tap Edit next to your name to open Edit profile.

Tap Username

In Edit profile, tap Username. The field still shows the current name, meow27_30.

Tap Username

Enter your new username and tap Save

Type your new username in the field. TikTok shows whether the name is available and reminds you that you can change it only once every 30 days and that your profile link changes with it - the address under the field already reads www.tiktok.com/@meow27_30. Then tap Save and confirm the change. The film shows the field and the Save button, but no new name is typed and the Save tap is not shown on camera.

Enter your new username and tap Save

Change your display name the same way

Your display name works the same way: tap Name in Edit profile and type the new name. The film shows the Name field, still reading meow27_30, and the note that your name can only be changed once every 7 days. No new name is typed on camera here either.

Change your display name the same way

Good to know

The film never types a new username or a new name, never taps Save and never shows a confirmation or an updated profile link. The typing, saving and confirmation are narration only, and the account keeps the name meow27_30 throughout.
You can change your username once every 30 days. Pick carefully - TikTok will not let you change it again until the 30 days are up.
Your display name has its own limit: it can only be changed once every 7 days.
Changing your username also changes your profile link to tiktok.com/@yournewname. The old link stops working, so update it anywhere you shared it.
Usernames can contain only letters, numbers, underscores and periods, as the Username screen itself states.
The profile in the film is the operator’s test account (@meow27_30). Faces in the profile video grid are blurred in the screenshots.

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