How to Block or Limit TikTok on Chrome

A weekly limit is optional and free, on the same screen. Hours run from 0 to 168, plus minutes. Presets are 3h, 7h, 14h, 21h, and 28h. The week is Monday through Sunday, and the host blocks when that week's time hits the cap, even if today is under the daily limit. One hostname is one of six free sites whether you set daily, weekly, or both. Pro removes the cap ($4.99/mo, $24.99/yr, $29.99 lifetime).

Seven days at 10 minutes add up to 70 minutes, so the 3-hour preset never fires while the daily cap stays at 10. Type 0 hours and 30 minutes if the week should stop you sooner.

Open Advanced Settings (Time Windows) in the popup. That opens the full settings page. Click Add Window, pick Workdays, Weekends, or All, then a start and an end on the same day. A window cannot cross midnight, so 9:00 PM to 1:00 AM is two windows.

A window limit counts only time inside that window. Set 0 hours and 0 minutes to block www.tiktok.com for the whole window, such as Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Daily and weekly limits still apply outside the window, and inside a window that has no limit of its own.

The page is titled Time's Up. It names www.tiktok.com and the reason (daily, weekly, or time window) and shows time used against the limit, including weekly numbers when a weekly limit is set. Extend Session is +5m, +15m, +30m, and +1h. Add Time & Unblock adds that amount to the saved limit. It is not a snooze: 10 minutes plus 15 stays 25 until you lower it.

Continue to Website stays disabled until the cap is no longer exceeded. Show Usage History is 7 days. You can turn the limit off or disable the extension. There is no password. If you need a real lock, for a child or for yourself, use Family Link, the Chrome policy, the hosts file, or DNS below.

tiktok.com returns a 301 to www.tiktok.com. On desktop Chrome, m.tiktok.com returns a 302 to www.tiktok.com. Share links on vm.tiktok.com and vt.tiktok.com return a 302 to a video or photo page on www.tiktok.com. The popup then shows www.tiktok.com. That row records time and fires.

tiktok.com, m.tiktok.com, vm.tiktok.com, and vt.tiktok.com do not stay open, so a row for one never records time, and adding it spends a free slot. In Settings, Limited Sites, Add Site, Enter Custom Website, type www.tiktok.com in full. The dialog says to omit http:// and www. That hint is wrong for TikTok.

For You (/foryou or /), Following, Explore (/explore), LIVE (/live), a profile (/@name), a video (/@name/video/<id>), and messages are all www.tiktok.com. You cannot limit only LIVE, only For You, or only one creator.

Path Analysis is opt-in and only tracks. Turn it on for www.tiktok.com to see time on /foryou, /explore, /live, or a profile. Free covers 3 hostnames and a tree 2 levels deep, even though the popup labels the control PRO. Pro shows 10 levels and removes the 3-host cap.

Limited Sites and the weekly ranking list www.tiktok.com once. LIVE, profiles, and For You are paths on that row, not extra hostnames.

Videos autoplay and loop. Time ticks once a second on the active tab of the focused window, and only while you are active. Scrolling, trackpad swipes, and clicks count. After 15 seconds without keyboard or mouse input, or when the screen locks, counting pauses even if a video keeps looping. A background tab is not counted, so 10 minutes on the limit can take longer on the clock. For a hard stop, use 0 minutes.

A TikTok player on another site is an iframe. It is not blocked and not counted. Only a top-level load of www.tiktok.com is.

SiteKeeper has no official Incognito support. Chrome leaves extensions off there unless you turn on Allow in Incognito at chrome://extensions, under SiteKeeper, then Details, and we do not promise that mode. Set IncognitoModeAvailability to 1, or use Family Link, to close Incognito. The extension does not run in the TikTok app, and limits do not sync.

The app has its own screen time settings: a daily screen time control, a 60-minute default on teen accounts that a passcode can bypass, and Family Pairing for parents. None of that caps Chrome.

In the Family Link app, open the child, then Controls, then Google Chrome and Web, then Manage sites, then Blocked sites. Add www.tiktok.com and include the www. Add the domain tiktok instead if you want every subdomain, including www, m, vm, and vt.

Android and Chromebook are fully supervised. On Windows, Mac, and Linux it applies only while the child is signed into that Chrome profile, and they can sign out or use another browser. Family Link blocks. It has no TikTok daily timer in Chrome.

URLBlocklist works on a personal computer and needs an administrator. It blocks matching URLs and has no time limit. A bare domain also matches its subdomains, so the filter tiktok.com covers www, m, vm, and vt in one entry.

On Windows, add a string value under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\URLBlocklist. Name 1 is tiktok.com. On macOS, deliver the same policy with a configuration profile for com.google.Chrome. On Linux, put a JSON file in /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/:

The hosts file stops those names from resolving for every browser on that computer. It has no schedule, no time limit, and no wildcards, so each name below needs its own line. On Windows, edit C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts in Notepad opened as administrator. On macOS and Linux, edit /etc/hosts with sudo.

Block TikTok in the router's parental controls or with a filtering DNS service. Every device on that Wi-Fi is covered, including the phone app, and some routers can schedule it. Mobile data is not. The app also calls content-delivery hosts, so a single tiktok.com rule may leave it playing. A TikTok toggle in a filtering service usually covers that longer list.

Chrome's Use secure DNS setting (Settings, Privacy and security, Security) or a VPN can bypass the router. Point secure DNS at the same provider, or turn it off.