TikTok sent you back to a different browser
Connecting TikTok must finish in the browser where it started. On iPhone, TikTok returns to Safari, so start in Safari.
TikTok sent you back to a different browser (or Security check failed) shows after you approve the connection on TikTok, when TikTok brings you back to a different browser from the one you started in.
Why it happens
When you tap Connect TikTok, EverySqueeze marks that browser so that only you can finish the connection. Each browser keeps its own marks. Your phone's other browsers and the browsers built into apps can't see them.
On iPhone, the TikTok app usually sends you back to Safari. If you started in Chrome, Firefox, or the browser built into Gmail, Instagram, Facebook or the Google app, Safari doesn't have the mark, so the connection stops. Nothing was connected or changed. Trying again in the same browser fails the same way.
What to do
- Start in Safari (on Android, in Chrome). On the setup screen, "Copy link" copies the page link. Open Safari, paste it, sign in if asked, and tap Connect TikTok again.
- Or use the button on the error page. It opens in the browser TikTok sent you to. If you're signed in there, it starts the connection again right there. If not, it signs you in first. We can email you a sign-in code to type in.
- Opened from an email? Links in the Gmail app often open in Gmail's own browser. Use Gmail's menu to open the page in Safari, or copy the link into Safari.
- Or finish on your computer. On a phone, the Connect TikTok step has "Email me a link to finish on my computer". It emails a one-time sign-in link to your account's own email; open it on your computer (or in Safari) and you are back on the same setup step, signed in. You can ask for 3 links a day.
In the EverySqueeze iPhone app
An ordinary TikTok sign-in can't come back to the app: TikTok returns to Safari. So the app does one of two things:
- Where the in-app connect is turned on for your account, "Connect TikTok Shop" opens TikTok in a secure window inside the app. Approve the connection there and the window closes by itself; the app then carries on (setup moves to the next step, Settings shows TikTok connected). Closed the window by mistake? Tap Connect TikTok Shop again. If TikTok refuses (for example the account isn't a TikTok Shop creator account), the app says why.
- Otherwise the app says "TikTok sign-in can’t finish inside the EverySqueeze app yet" and offers an email link instead: "Email me a link to finish setup" during setup, "Email me a link to connect TikTok" in Settings and Posts. Open that link in Safari on your phone or on your computer and tap Connect TikTok Shop there, then come back to the app: it checks again when you return (or tap "I’ve connected TikTok, check again").
You don't need a new invitation. Your account is already set up; only the TikTok step needs to run in one browser.
If it still fails in Safari, use Report a problem in Pip's menu and say which browser you used.