TikTok's main iPhone app claims 68 path patterns on tiktok.com. They're listed in tiktok.com's Apple association file (apple-app-site-association), and they include /@* for profiles and the videos under them, and /t/* for short links. On vm.tiktok.com the same app claims every path. The Android files for both domains name the same app, com.zhiliaoapp.musically. So a tiktok.com or vm.tiktok.com link opens the TikTok app when it's installed, with nothing generated.
Two different things called a TikTok deep link
TikTok's own help page on deeplinks sits in its Ads Manager help center, and it covers a different job: links inside TikTok ads that open the advertiser's app. It splits them into a direct deeplink, which opens a page in the app when the app is installed, and a deferred deeplink, which sends people without the app to the app store first and then to the content. It also says deeplinks are mainly for people who already have the app. None of that applies to sending people from a bio, a website or an email into TikTok. For that job, the web address is enough.
The three forms for a TikTok link
- The https link (
https://www.tiktok.com/@yourhandle). Opens the profile or video in TikTok, or loads it on tiktok.com. - The custom scheme. The generator doesn't build one. No TikTok page we found documents one for viewers. The generator's note gives the reason it won't guess: TikTok's scheme takes a numeric user ID or an internal video ID, and a public link carries neither.
- The Android intent. It works in Chrome on Android only, where it opens TikTok and carries tiktok.com as its fallback for phones without the app.
Short links
A vm.tiktok.com link is a shortener, so the generator can't see what it points to. It returns the link as it is, with a note to follow it first. A tiktok.com/t/ link gets the message that it doesn't look like a profile or a piece of content. Run either one through the redirect checker and paste the address it lands on. You only need to do that to read or rebuild the link, because TikTok's app already claims both kinds of short link.
How to test it
- Check the handle in the output. If you paste tiktok.com/yourhandle without the @, the generator adds it and returns tiktok.com/@yourhandle.
- Tap the link on a phone with TikTok and on one without. The first should open the app and the second should load tiktok.com.
Instagram's pages, unlike TikTok's, publish a profile scheme; see the Instagram deep link page. For YouTube videos, see the YouTube page. Every platform the tool reads is on the main deep link generator.