Hushfeed

Hushfeed is a Morphe patch bundle for people who want TikTok to behave differently. It can cut feed clutter, guard risky taps, improve downloads and expose controls TikTok leaves buried or unavailable. Every selected patch is configured from one native settings screen inside the app.

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Pick what changes

• Feed: Start with the reversible Calm feed preset, or hide ads, Shop, livestreams, stories, photo posts, unwanted creators and videos matching your own rules. Remove feed ads also catches paid partnerships and creator commission posts, including location-affiliate videos.
• Touch controls: Add second-tap protection to Follow, Like and sending from the share sheet. Remap or disable long press and double tap.
• Playback: Choose speed and quality, stop loops, resume a video after scrolling or move to the next one automatically.
• Downloads: Save watermark-free video, original photos, separate audio and SRT subtitles with filenames and folders you control. The save button also works on videos whose creator turned downloading off.
• Comments and inbox: Filter comment text or accounts, translate comments and decide which Inbox rows appear. Compact comment header removes the count, sort and close row and the suggestion area above it. Close comments with Back or a downward swipe. It's optional and needs a restart.
• Privacy and diagnostics: Turn off supported telemetry, hide view and typing reports, back up settings and export a useful diagnostic report.

Compact comment header keeps headers that switch between different lists, so those tabs remain reachable.

Easier comment likes, under Comments, extends the heart's touch area into nearby blank space. The icon and row spacing don't change. Text and neighboring controls keep their own space. It's off by default and needs a restart.

Feed screen has separate options to hide the Full screen button and location labels over videos, including badges listing multiple places. They don't remove the videos or change location permissions.

Want to skip those videos entirely? Turn on Filter location-tagged videos under Feed filter > Ads. It's independent of badge hiding and includes posts that aren't paid ads. These options are off by default and need a restart.

If one of the marker switches (Hide Series, say, or Hide playlist videos) empties three lists of five or more in a row, a banner names that switch and its button opens the row. A filter that has started matching everything shouldn't read as TikTok breaking. Nothing gets switched off for you.

Hide the search bar below videos, under Feed screen, removes the suggested-search strip above the bottom tabs. Video details and side controls can use its space. The top search button and comment suggestions have their own switches. This option is off by default and needs a restart.

Hide the Tako bubble, under Feed tabs, also covers the Tako bar TikTok draws above the comment list, the strip of suggested questions and image prompts. Same switch, nothing extra to turn on. Restart TikTok after changing it.

Some regions get extras the rest never see. Hide the Report button on videos, under Feed screen, removes the flag button above the creator's picture. Hide search rewards, under App, removes the points banner under the search box and the coin counter floating over results. Both are off by default, and neither could be tried on our own phones, so reports on how they behave are welcome.

The settings screen comes in English, German, Spanish, Indonesian, Brazilian Portuguese and Turkish. It follows the language TikTok runs in, which is your phone's language unless you've picked another one for the app.

One-tap blocking skips to the next video as soon as TikTok confirms the block. A compact Unblock button appears at the top left for two seconds. You can also unblock later in TikTok's Privacy > Blocked accounts. A delayed response won't skip another video if you've already moved on.

The block, local hide, sound and Not interested controls, rendered in a local UI test:

The compact Unblock action, also rendered from the actual control in a local UI test:

Install

1. Get the TikTok 47.0.3 APK. Google Play only offers the newest build, so take it from APKMirror. When you pick that file in Morphe Manager on Android 11 or newer, Manager checks that TikTok's own key signed it and warns you if a different one did. That warning means the file was changed after TikTok published it, so download it again instead of patching it.
2. Use Morphe Manager 1.30.0 or newer. Manager refuses a bundle built against a patcher newer than its own, and this one is built against patcher 1.13.0, which Manager 1.30.0 was the first to ship. On anything older the bundle simply will not load.
3. Add Hushfeed as a source in Morphe Manager. The quickest way is this link on the phone: Add Hushfeed to Morphe. Some in-app browsers block Android from handing a web link to another app. If Open in Morphe leaves you in the browser, open Morphe Manager, tap Sources, tap +, and paste https://github.com/SysAdminDoc/hushfeed. You can also download patches-0.58.0.mpp from the latest release and load it as a local bundle.
4. Pick the patches you want and patch the APK. Keep the manager's existing signing key so TikTok stays logged in across updates. Every patch here fits the manager's 640 MB memory default except AMOLED dark theme, which rewrites TikTok's color resources and needs the limit raised to 768 MB. That 640 is the manager's default and not a measured minimum: the whole set apart from AMOLED fits in 576 MB. If patching stops with an out of memory error, that setting is the one to raise. A run that sits at 24 or 25 percent and never moves is the same problem wearing a different face: cancel it, set the limit to 768 MB and start again, and if that still stalls try 512 MB, which gives the patcher less to hold at once.
5. Install the patched APK. From 2026-09-30, phones in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand ask for more before they will install an app from a developer Google has not verified. The flow is the same every time: turn on the option in Developer options, confirm the device lock, restart the phone, then wait 24 hours before the install goes through. After that it stays open for 7 days, or indefinitely if you chose that. This is not a one-off. Every Hushfeed release is an update, and an update goes through it again once the window closes. adb install from a computer skips the whole thing.
6. Open TikTok and go to Settings and privacy. Hushfeed is the first row. Tap it to find the switches for every patch you selected.

Selected patches activate when TikTok starts. The Settings patch adds the entry point and is selected by default. Deselect it and the other patches still apply, but their switches have nowhere to live. patches-bundle.json in the repository root is the source index Morphe reads for the published bundle.

If Morphe reported "The remote metadata file is unavailable" for Hushfeed v0.51.0, refresh the source. The v0.52.0 source update corrects a timestamp that Manager couldn't read. You don't need to reinstall Manager, clear its data or change its signing key.

Which managers can load it

Morphe Manager 1.30.0 or newer loads Hushfeed on the phone, and morphe-desktop does it from a computer. Universal ReVanced Manager can't import a Morphe bundle, so patches picked there never reach TikTok (its issue #733). Use Morphe Manager instead.

Troubleshooting

Logging in fails

Login trouble is the most common complaint about any patched TikTok. These are the fixes people report:

• Turn off Private DNS, AdGuard or any other ad blocker while you log in. They can block the addresses TikTok checks a login against.
• After several failed tries TikTok stops taking new ones for a while. Wait an hour, then try again.
• Facebook login can't work on a patched build. Facebook checks the app's signing key, and a patched TikTok carries your manager's key instead of TikTok's. Log in with your email or phone number and a code, or with Google.
• Hide CAPTCHA popups leaves login and account checks on screen, so it shouldn't be the cause. If a login stalls with nothing showing, turn it off and try once more to rule it out.

Patching stops at 24 or 25 percent

The manager has run short of memory. Step 4 of Install says which limit to change and what to try if it still stalls.

The file from APKMirror ends in .apkm

That's a split bundle. Morphe Manager merges it into one APK, and AMOLED dark theme works on that. The desktop CLI merges it differently, and the dark theme refuses the result, which Why you have to fetch that APK yourself explains.

Can I select every patch at once?

Yes. Every release is patched with all of them selected before it ships, so no two refuse to go in together. The one thing to watch is memory: with AMOLED dark theme selected, raise the manager's limit as step 4 of Install says. Mixing Hushfeed with another TikTok bundle is a different question, and Moving from Kveld covers the overlap we know about.

Is it Hushfeed? Pause it and see

Hushfeed settings > Pause Hushfeed turns off everything a switch, list or limit controls, from the next start. TikTok then runs the way it ships. If the problem is still there, it isn't coming from any of that. Your settings stay exactly as they were, and switching Pause off brings every one of them back after a restart, with no patching again. A diagnostic export made while paused says so at the top.

Pausing also turns off your screen-time budget, so a day you've locked refuses it until the day starts over.

A few patches change TikTok with no switch in front of them, and Pause can't reach those:

• Settings itself, which is how you get back to the switch.
• AMOLED dark theme.
• Disable screen capture detection, Disable login requirement, Fix Google login, Enable voice comments and Stop on-device AI profiling.
• Skip the splash ad, Limit background traffic, Drop the animated image cache and Skip update checks.
• Block P2P video relay and the four patches that take files out of the app: Remove content credential and card scanner assets, Remove unused language packs, Remove creation tools and Remove LIVE extras.
• In Downloads, the folder and file name you picked still apply, as do the fallback to a clean video address and the save button on stickers.

While paused, TikTok's own bottom bar comes back, + button included. If Remove creation tools was patched in, the camera and editor behind that button still won't work, because their files were taken out when the app was patched.

TikTok closes right after it opens

If TikTok crashes within a minute of starting three times in a row, Hushfeed pauses itself on the next start. The top of Hushfeed settings then says why and offers Turn Hushfeed back on. Being swiped away or force-stopped doesn't count toward the three.

TikTok has a recovery of its own for this. On the third crash in a row at launch it clears most of what it has saved, so you may see its interest picker again. Hushfeed's settings are on the short list it keeps, so they're all still there when you turn Hushfeed back on.

If you can't reach the settings at all, create an empty file named hushfeed-safe-mode in Android/data/com.zhiliaoapp.musically/files/. From a computer with adb that's adb shell touch /sdcard/Android/data/com.zhiliaoapp.musically/files/hushfeed-safe-mode. Hushfeed stays paused for as long as the file is there, and Turn Hushfeed back on deletes it.

Going back

To plain TikTok

1. If you might come back, save your Hushfeed settings first: Hushfeed settings > Backup and restore > Back up settings. The file goes wherever you pick, so choose a folder you'll find again.
2. Uninstall the patched TikTok, then install TikTok from Google Play. Android won't put one over the other, because they're signed with different keys. Uninstalling clears the app's data, so you'll log in again afterwards.

To an older Hushfeed

Download that release's .mpp from the releases page and load it in Morphe Manager as a local bundle, then patch and install as usual. As long as the manager signs with the same key, it installs over the current build and keeps your login and settings.

Keeping the signing key

The manager signs every patched build with its own key, and Android only installs an update over the old app when both carry the same one. So don't reset that key, and remember it when you move to a new phone or reinstall the manager. A build signed with a new key means uninstalling first, which clears your login and data. Your settings come back from Backup and restore > Restore settings.

Patches

Patch	Description
Advanced downloads	Adds download quality choices, saves Photo Mode images directly from their source URLs, keeps a video's sound as its own audio file, and saves a profile picture or a story from a long press. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Downloads.
Allow Duet and Stitch	Ignores the creator's Duet and Stitch setting so the entries appear for videos that closed them. Everything else the app checks still applies: a photo post, a private video or one with music it may not reuse is still refused, and whether the upload is accepted is the server's decision, not the app's. Switch: Hushfeed settings > App.
Allow screenshots and Circle to Search	Removes secure window flags and disables the Circle to Search block. Off by default; restart after changing. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Always show publish date	Always shows the publish date in video author information. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
AMOLED dark theme	Replaces TikTok's dark background palette with black or a chosen color. The light theme keeps its colors. It is the one patch that rewrites resources, so patching with it on needs the memory limit raised to 768 MB.
Automatic video advance	Keeps TikTok's automatic advance enabled while preserving its pause, dialog and gesture checks, and shows TikTok's own Auto scroll action in the video panel for accounts outside its rollout, with a switch that hides that action instead. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Playback.
Block author button	Adds one-tap controls for blocking the creator, hiding them locally and blocking the current sound. A confirmed account block skips to the next video and shows a small Unblock button at the top left for two seconds. The local-hide and sound controls have separate switches. Long press any visible control to move it. Hushfeed keeps it clear of system bars, cutouts and TikTok's bottom tabs when the window changes. A local action shows Undo only after its setting was saved. All controls hide while comments are open. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed filter.
Block contact list access	Answers TikTok's reads of your phone contacts with an empty list. Find Friends and People you may know lose access to your contact list. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Privacy.
Block installed app scanning	Answers TikTok's scan of the apps installed on your phone with an empty list. Checks for one named app, which TikTok also uses to open an app you tap, are left alone. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Privacy.
Block P2P video relay	Strips TikTok's peer-to-peer CDN libraries so your phone is not used as a relay node for other people's video traffic. Saves battery and mobile data.
Camera and microphone indicator	Shows a small dot in the top corner while TikTok has the camera open or is recording sound. Green for the camera, orange for the microphone, both when both. It goes when the access ends. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Privacy.
Comment publish diagnostics	Says in the diagnostic report whether a comment send reached TikTok's publish code, what it had in hand, and whether it returned early or handed the comment to the request. A comment that never posts leaves no other trace.
Comment sort controls	Shows TikTok's own comment sort sheet on every post, with its hot, newest, media and creator options, instead of the cut-down row an account outside the rollout is given. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Comments.
Comment tools	Hides comments that contain chosen words or come from chosen accounts, turns the thumbs down on each comment into a block button that shows the block symbol, makes links tappable and can hide pictures, polls or TikTok's suggested-search banner above comments. Compact comment header removes the count, controls and suggestion space above the list. Easier comment likes extends the heart's touch area into nearby blank space without changing row spacing. A separate search box filters comments already loaded on the video. Each tool has its own switch in Hushfeed settings > Comments.
Confirm feed interactions	Adds optional second-tap protection to the feed Follow button and like heart. A red ring marks the armed button. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Copy comments without username	Copies only the comment text without including the creator's username. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Comments.
Custom offline videos limit	Adds a custom entry to TikTok's offline videos menu with a configurable limit from 1 to 1000 videos. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Downloads.
Device privacy guard	Blocks TikTok from reading your clipboard. Copying a link you asked for still works. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Privacy.
Diagnostic tools	Adds diagnostic logging, filtered reports and local TikTok crash capture. The switches are under Diagnostics in Hushfeed settings. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Diagnostics.
Disable login requirement	Removes TikTok's mandatory login gate from supported flows.
Disable screen capture detection	Prevents TikTok from reacting to screenshots and screen recordings.
Disable telemetry	Adds a switch on the Privacy page that stops ByteDance AppLog analytics, AppsFlyer attribution, explicit Firebase screen reports and TikTok's Npth or MonitorCrash startup reporting. TikTok's own diagnostics go quiet with them. Off by default. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Privacy.
Disable the long press quick share	Keeps long-pressing Share from opening TikTok's quick-share interaction. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Disable the long press repost	Keeps holding Like from opening TikTok's repost action. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Double-tap controls	Lets double taps do nothing or open the current video's comments. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Downloads	Adds watermark-free downloads, comment sticker saving, configurable folders, and filename templates. It ignores the flag TikTok sets when a creator turns downloading off, so those videos save too. Network fetches accept public HTTPS addresses and follow at most five checked redirects. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Downloads.
Drop the animated image cache	Makes TikTok's reviewed Fresco animated-frame cache lookups return no cached frame. This can increase decoding work or change animation playback.
Enable voice comments	Turns on TikTok's own voice comment recording and publishing entry points for accounts that do not have them.
Expand activity list	Show the full Activity and New followers lists instead of collapsing them behind a View all button. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Inbox.
Feature Gate Lab	Adds a menu for viewing and overriding supported TikTok feature flags and configuration values.
Feature Gate Recorder	Records feature gate reads while you use TikTok and compares them with their previous values. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Diagnostics.
Feed filter	Hides feed ads, including videos with creator commission disclosures, TikTok Shop items, livestreams, LIVE replays, stories, photo posts, paid partnerships, AI labeled videos, location-tagged videos, verified accounts, series, playlists, the playlist bar, the floating event badge and inserted cards. Videos can also be filtered by your own caption words, creator handles or patterns, sound names, length, the country they were posted from and their view, like, comment, favorite and share counts. Sponsored cards are dropped from the profile video viewer, the search grids and the Friends tab as well as the feed, and so are the mid-roll ads TikTok splices into a video pager after the list has loaded and the ads a creator's video pager asks for on its own. The share prompt that appears after a like can be hidden too, and so can TikTok Shop's Products block and product cards in search results. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed filter.
Feed tab navigation	Controls which loaded top and bottom navigation tabs remain visible, blocks newly added tabs when requested, and can hide the Tako AI bubble and the unread badges on the bottom tabs. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed tabs.
Fit the video to the screen	Puts the whole of a vertical video on screen instead of cropping it to the window. On a 9:16 phone nothing changes, because the video already fills it. On a Fold opened up, a squarer phone or a split view the sides or the ends stop being cut off. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Playback.
Fix Google login	Restores Google account sign-in after patching.
Foldable split comment view	Shows comments beside the video on windows wider than a configurable threshold. Off by default. Switch: Hushfeed settings > App.
Follow diagnostics	Reads what the server said about a follow. A follow TikTok turns down comes back looking like a success, so this reports the refusal and its reason once per session and, with diagnostic logging on, writes the whole exchange to the report.
Ghost mode	Stop TikTok reporting that you viewed a story or a profile or that you are typing. Online status is unchanged. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Privacy.
Hide already seen videos	Keeps a local record of the videos you have watched and hides them when the feed sends them again. The record never leaves the device and can be cleared from settings. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed filter.
Hide CAPTCHA popups	Adds a default-off setting to hide the CAPTCHA dialogs raised while browsing or watching LIVE. Login and account verification stay visible, and so does any CAPTCHA the server raised over a follow, like, comment or repost, because hiding one of those makes the action fail with no message. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Hide comment popup ads	Stops the brand animation that plays over the comment sheet when a comment matches an advertiser's trigger word or emoji. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Comments.
Hide feed follow button	Hide the + follow button below creator avatars in video feeds. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Hide feed LIVE button	Hide the LIVE button at the top left of video feeds. Shares its switch with the LIVE entrance option of Hide video overlays, and stops the button before it is built rather than hiding it once it is on screen. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Hide feed save button	Hide the save button from video feeds. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Hide feed search button	Hide the search button at the top right of video feeds. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Hide floating promotions	Removes floating promotional badges from the feed and can hide the rewards shortcut on Profile. Switches: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen and App.
Hide inbox items	Adds a switch for each row and header control on the Inbox tab, so message requests, TikTok Tako, TikTok Shop, the stories tray and the rest can be hidden individually. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Inbox.
Hide inbox stories	Hides the stories tray at the top of the Inbox and restores it immediately when the switch is turned off. Shares its switch with Hide inbox items. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Inbox.
Hide comment typing suggestions	Hides automatic emoji and sticker suggestions above the comment box. Manual buttons stay available. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Comments.
Hide search suggestions	Hides the suggested searches TikTok offers on the search page before you type, and stops the page asking for them. Your own search history is left alone. A separate switch hides the search rewards banner and coin counter some regions get. Switch: Hushfeed settings > App.
Hide suggested accounts	Stops the suggested accounts list from being built on the Activity, New followers and Inbox pages, and collapses every other People you may like card: the profile header, the Friends tab and the feed. Shares its switch with Hide inbox items. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Inbox.
Hide the launcher shortcuts	Empties the menu that opens on pressing and holding TikTok's icon on the home screen. The entries are built while the app runs rather than declared in it, and TikTok only rewrites them when it notices a difference, so this removes what is already published and answers the handover that would publish more. Turning it off asks TikTok to build them again. Tapping the icon still opens the app, and a shortcut pinned to a home screen is left alone. Switch: Hushfeed settings > App.
Hide the risk control CAPTCHA	Hides TikTok's risk control CAPTCHA dialog, raised by its BdTuring service, which the browsing CAPTCHA patch does not cover. Answers the Hide CAPTCHA popups setting, never touches SMS or two factor verification, and never hides a check the server raised over a follow, like, comment or repost. Off by default.
Hide video overlays	Hides the visual search prompt TikTok lays over videos, the LIVE entrance in the top left corner, caption and music text, selected action buttons or their counts in the right column, survey cards and the status bar. Separate switches hide the Full screen button, location labels and the Report button some regions get above the creator's picture, without removing videos or changing location permissions. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Hold-and-slide 2x lock	Enables TikTok's own hold, pull down and release gesture to lock the hold speed, 2x unless Playback speed sets another. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
In-app browser privacy guard	Keeps TikTok's JavaScript bridge off external pages in its in-app browser while leaving Activity center, Watch history, shop checkout and CAPTCHA working. The switch is off until you turn it on. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Privacy.
Keep the Favorites tab	Keeps the Favorites tab on your profile when TikTok's server puts the account into an experiment that empties it. Two people saw that after patching: the tab was there and the saved videos were not. Switch: Hushfeed settings > App.
Keep the screen's refresh rate	Stops TikTok asking the screen to run slower than it can, which it does by asking for the frame rate of the video it is playing. On a 90 or 120 Hz phone that ask takes the whole app down to that rate, scrolling included. A request that is not slower than the screen is left alone. Switch: Hushfeed settings > App.
Limit background traffic	Turns off TikTok's buffer-preload gate and skips its push initialization task. Videos may start buffering later, and TikTok push notifications may stop.
Location access governor	Answers TikTok's location requests with nothing: the last known location comes back empty and update requests never fire. The SIM and region spoof change the locale and timezone, not the coordinates; this stops the coordinates. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Privacy.
Long-press controls	Lets a long press on a video keep TikTok's own action, do nothing, open the video's comments, save the original sound, or copy the link to the video or its sound, and can turn a press on the left or right third of the screen into a jump back or forward. Brings Double-tap controls with it, which supplies the comment control. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Not interested button	Adds a movable button that tells TikTok you aren't interested in the current video. It hides while comments are open. Off by default. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed filter.
Notification controls	Adds a switch for the notification saying somebody new followed you, and one for message streaks, neither of which TikTok lets you turn off. The follower switch drops the notification before Android is asked to post it, so nothing else in the drawer is affected. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Inbox.
Open external links directly	Opens profile and story website links in the system browser instead of TikTok's in-app browser. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Privacy.
Playback quality	Selects the lowest, highest or a target video quality for playback, adaptive streams included. A second choice caps quality on mobile data and only ever lowers it. Download quality has its own setting. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Playback.
Playback speed	Remembers playback speed or applies a default to each new video, with custom menu choices up to 3x and your own speed for the hold gesture. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Playback.
Region spoof	Matches locale, timezone and native region getters to the SIM preset, with a separate experimental store-region switch. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Region.
Remember clear display	Remembers clear display between videos, or enters it automatically after a chosen delay. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Remove content credential and card scanner assets	Empties TikTok's bundled C2PA and Microblink card-scanning assets, the Pitaya AI model libraries, the live-cast dynamic feature, and the ART log monitor probe.
Remove creation tools	Empties TikTok's reviewed editor, camera-effect and face-model assets. The Create tab and all recording, editing and effects tools stop working. Switch: Hushfeed settings > App behavior.
Remove LIVE extras	Empties TikTok's link-mic and LIVE match or minigame assets, then skips its gift-effect widget setup. Co-hosting, games and animated gifts may stop.
Remove unused language packs	Empties unselected TikTok language bundles while always keeping English. Selected language codes are checked before any file changes.
Resource and battery governor	Stops TikTok listening to the motion sensors it polls for device fingerprinting: the accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, rotation, gravity and linear acceleration sensors. Saves the battery they wake. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Privacy.
Resume videos after scrolling	Continues supported videos from where playback stopped when returning after a scroll. Switch: Hushfeed settings > App.
Sanitize sharing links	Removes tracking parameters from TikTok links before they are shared, and can put a host of your choosing in place of tiktok.com. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Privacy.
Settings	Adds the Hushfeed settings screen to TikTok and keeps its entry first in Settings and privacy.
Share sheet tools	Asks twice before a video is sent to a friend from the share sheet. The check follows the account or conversation instead of the visible name and covers accessibility actions and keyboard input. It can also hide chosen people, share options or the whole Send to row, and a profile's or a LIVE's share sheet can hide a different set from a video's. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Share sheet.
Show author region	Show the country a video was posted from next to the creator's name on the feed. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Show LIVE search	Shows TikTok's search entry in the LIVE drawer where supported.
Show the progress bar	Shows TikTok's native video seekbar where it would normally be hidden. Switch: Hushfeed settings > App.
Show the progress bar thumbnail	Shows TikTok's video preview thumbnail while dragging the seekbar.
SIM spoof	Spoofs SIM country and operator information retrieved by TikTok, with country presets for easier setup. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Region.
Skip content warnings	Play videos TikTok has classified without the warning overlay asking to be tapped through first. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Skip the splash ad	Stops TikTok's splash-ad preload tasks and returns false from its reviewed splash and TopView gates. Other startup behavior is left in place.
Skip update checks	Skips TikTok's background and boot-finished device-ID update-check tasks. This may suppress some in-app update checks. Play Store updates are unaffected.
Stop on-device AI profiling	Kills the Pitaya on-device ML inference engine at startup so it cannot build a behavioral profile. The AI asset strip in the core de-bloat patch removes the native libraries; this stops the initialization code that would download replacements.
Stop video looping	Stops videos at the end instead of replaying them. Switch: Hushfeed settings > App.
Subtitle tools	Saves subtitle files beside downloaded videos and adds caption size, background, and clear-display options. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Feed screen.
Translate comments	Adds comment translation controls using TikTok's translation system, with selectable language exclusions. Switch: Hushfeed settings > Comments.
Use non-personalized search	Uses TikTok's non-personalized search mode instead of its saved account choice. Switch: Hushfeed settings > App.
Use system font	Draws TikTok's text in your device's font instead of TikTok Sans. The icons, the gift animations and the @ and # glyphs keep their own fonts. Off by default; restart after changing. Switch: Hushfeed settings > App.

Settings tour

Which search setting do I need?

What you want to change	Setting and location
The Search: ... suggestion above a video's comments	Comments > Hide search suggestions above comments. Restart TikTok after changing it.
A box for finding text or usernames in loaded comments	Comments > Search within comments. This adds Hushfeed's own filter, not TikTok search.
Recommended searches shown before typing on TikTok's search page	App > Hide suggestions on the search page. Search history stays.
The magnifying glass at the top of the feed	Feed screen > Hide the search button on the feed.
The magnifying glass at the top of Inbox	Inbox > Hide the Inbox search button.
A Search this image prompt over a video	Feed screen > Hide Search this image prompts.

Each switch controls its own surface. Turning one off doesn't change the others. The search field in Hushfeed settings only finds settings.

Pages and navigation

The settings home starts with a live Hushfeed status card and the installed Hushfeed and TikTok versions. Diagnostics is available from that card. Search follows it, then direct buttons for Feed filter, Privacy and Screen time. The full menu remains in four groups. Your feed holds Feed filter, Feed tabs and Feed screen. Watching and sharing holds Playback, Screen time, Comments, Downloads, Share sheet and Inbox. Privacy and system holds Privacy, Region, App, the Feature Gate Lab, Diagnostics and Backup and restore. About sits at the end. A group only appears when the patches you chose give it a page. Search finds any row by its translated title or description, jumps to it and keeps your search when you return.

Inside a page, rows sit under headings that say what they are about. Feed filter starts with Calm feed, a reversible preset that hides ads, Shop posts, LIVE interruptions and paid promotions without changing ordinary content choices. The individual controls follow under Kinds of post, Limits, Creators and sounds, Words and countries, Seen videos and Advanced. Feed screen starts with the right column, where one checklist row hides any of the six buttons and the counts, then Video info, Around the video, Popups, Captions, Screen, Clear display and Gestures. Screen time is the daily budgets, the reminder and the hold. Backup and restore is Back up, Restore, Reset and Undo.

The pages use grouped controls on an AMOLED background. Light mode follows TikTok's theme, including the space behind the system bars. Larger text wraps across lines without clipping headers, captions or editor labels, and the three home shortcuts become full-width rows before their names can split. Invalid values stay in the editor with an inline explanation and clear as soon as you type again. Undo and restart actions stay inside settings in a ten-second banner with a full-size button. Changing font size or navigation mode keeps the settings page you were using and its Back history. If a page cannot finish loading, Hushfeed replaces partial controls with a translated explanation plus Back and Retry actions. These screenshots come from native Android views rendered by the local test suite. Enabled controls and values are test fixtures.

Every settings page

Page	Screenshot
Feed filter	View
Local creator list	View
Feed tabs	View
Feed screen	View
Playback	View
Screen time	View
Comments	View
Downloads	View
Share sheet	View
Inbox	View
Privacy	View
Region	View
App	View
Diagnostics	View
Backup and restore	View
Settings search	View
Settings recovery	View
Feature Gate Lab	View
Gate details	View
Gate recording	View
Twice the text size	View
Twice the text size, light	View
Mirrored layout at twice the text size	View
Mirrored layout, light	View

The native choice dialogs keep one indicator at the leading edge. These renders cover selected and unselected rows in both themes. The Included diagnostics images come from the shipped eight-choice picker with its real Apply and Cancel actions:

Dialog	Dark	Light
Single choice	View	View
Included diagnostics	View	View

Hushfeed saves what the app already has. The download reads the addresses TikTok itself fetched for the video you are watching, on the session you are already signed in with, so there is no separate request pretending to be a browser and nothing to keep in step with the site. That is the difference between this and a scraper. Through August 2026 yt-dlp had to rewrite its TikTok extractor twice and re-implement browser impersonation, and it broke again on 1 September. Cobalt has not shipped since April. None of that is a promise that saving always works. TikTok can change what it hands the app, and when it does the saver changes with the patches. It just means the thing most likely to break in a scraper is not part of how this works.

Select Subtitle tools in the patcher, then enable subtitle downloads in Downloads. Captioned videos and their SRT files share the same filename stem. Language names can use Unicode, and filename collisions keep separate tracks. Android 11 and later save the pair in Movies; Android 10 uses Download. The selected subfolder still applies. A failed subtitle transfer leaves the saved video intact and reports the partial result.

Caption appearance and the clear display option are on the Feed screen page:

The clear-display caption is removed as soon as you turn its switch off. Turning it back on restores the current cue when its video is still on screen.

Inbox category switches identify New followers, Activity, Archive, Tako and Shop from native row data. They work with translated labels. Turning a switch off restores an already loaded row on the next layout.

Playback has an optional default speed for every new video. A manual choice lasts until you change videos. To add 2.5x, enter it in Speed menu choices and restart TikTok; an empty list restores TikTok's menu.

Select Automatic video advance in the patcher, then turn on Auto-advance videos in Playback and restart. The option re-enables native auto-scroll if TikTok turns it off, and it puts TikTok's own Auto scroll action in the video actions panel, which otherwise only appears for accounts in that rollout. Use the Playback switch to disable it.

Auto-advance session limit is zero by default. A positive value counts videos that finish while Hushfeed started scrolling, not prefetches or manual swipes. Recreating the feed or changing the limit starts a new count. Saving the same number, changing another setting or returning from the background keeps the existing count, including a reached limit. Hushfeed shows a brief notice when it stops.

Advanced downloads can send a sanitized TikTok link to another installed app. Enter its package name in Send links to another app; an empty value keeps TikTok's own save. The YTDLnis package is recognized explicitly as com.deniscerri.ytdl, so its documented audio or video type and optional background mode are available. The profile controls stay disabled for every other package, and an uninstalled target falls back to TikTok's save.

Photo filename templates can use {index}. TikTok's own Photo Mode saver numbers each image from 1 and starts over when the post has finished saving, including on Android versions that write straight to a shared folder.

Foldable controls are on the App page. Settings save immediately, including when an older settings page is still open. A banner offers Restart now when a change needs it, and a pinned row keeps the action available until TikTok restarts. With the split view on, unfolding past your width with TikTok already open refreshes the feed once so the side-by-side layout can take over, and folding back refreshes it again.

Numeric feed limits show their actual unit with language-aware singular and plural labels.

Native settings pickers use one radio indicator for a single choice and one checkbox for multiple choices. The selected state remains accessible and is saved through Android's native list adapter.

Region spoof requires Override SIM details plus Match locale and timezone to country on the Region page. Each built-in country preset supplies a timezone. Country codes must be two ASCII letters. Locale scripts and extensions are retained, including when a legacy variant needs fallback handling. Restart TikTok after changing these settings. Enable the separate store-region option only if needed, since it can affect search. GPS and the network address stay unchanged. Neither switch can change where TikTok thinks you are on its own: your IP address, the history on your account and the language you read in all say the same thing they said before, and any one of them is enough for TikTok to keep serving the region it already chose.

Playback has two switches for a feed that keeps going when nobody is watching it. One takes the sound while a comment sheet is open and gives it back when the sheet closes. The other holds the feed after you return to the app until you tap once, and leaves the tab bar alone so messages, a profile and search stay one tap away. Both are off unless you turn them on. These two switches request audio focus; they don't call the native player pause used by the daily-budget hold.

Playback also carries a daily budget for the feed, on builds that include the block author patch, which is where the hook that knows which video is on screen comes from. It is off until you put a number in it, and until then nothing is counted at all. Set a video count, a number of minutes, or both, and Hushfeed says once that the day is used up. Set a hold too and the current player pauses behind a countdown for that many minutes, with a way through it on the countdown itself for the times you decide otherwise. It resumes only when the held video is still current, the feed is visible and audio focus permits playback. If another app holds focus past the countdown, Hushfeed waits for native focus to return before handing that video back. This also works when TikTok hasn't applied the queued pause yet. The panel follows the tab row as the screen layout changes. Messages, profiles and search are untouched, and so is the feed itself: nothing is dropped, so TikTok never refetches a batch it already sent. The day rolls over at four in the morning unless you move it, and the count and the hold both survive the app being killed. If a hold arriving out of nowhere is not what you want, there is a switch that fades the feed out over the last three quarters of a minute of a time budget, so you can see it coming. It needs a budget in minutes to follow and a hold to lead into, and it stays out of the way if you have turned system animations off.

Backup and restore holds Back up settings, Restore settings and Reset settings, and it's there whichever patches you picked. Backups include patch preferences and Feature Gate Lab rules with their enabled state. Choose a JSON file through Android's file picker. Invalid files leave settings unchanged. Restore and reset keep one undo copy inside TikTok. An interrupted write can recover from its backup file, and a current Hushfeed copy always wins over a copy written under the project's earlier name. Export a backup first if you plan to clear app data or reinstall, since that removes the undo copy too. Restart after restoring or resetting. Show failures on screen decides whether a failure inside Hushfeed is also put in front of you while diagnostic logging is on. Turn it off and failures go to the report alone.

Backups record which settings they contain, so missing entries are rejected. A backup is a set of values to apply rather than a picture of the whole app, so anything it predates is left as you have it and the restore says how many that was. A backup from before the download destinations were split carries the one folder it knew about, and that fills in all three. If saving fails, recovery attempts both preference stores and keeps the undo copy available.

The Hook status row answers a question the patch list cannot. The patcher knows what it wrote into the APK, not whether a hook then found its anchor once TikTok was running, and TikTok renames things every release. When a hook loses its anchor the switch above it still reads on while nothing happens. Tap the row for a line per surface: how many lookups bound, how many did not, and the first thing that went missing. It hears from comments, comment translation, the inbox, the share sheet, the feed overlay, the bottom navigation and the story viewer, feed models, playback quality, sensitive warnings, CAPTCHA account state, external browser, sticker saves and story saves. The last four identify missing service calls, the sticker source adapters LLILLIZIL or X.0UD5, and the story chain LLJIJIL, LLJIJIL, LL, getAweme. "Everything found what it needed" means everything Hook status watches rather than every patch in the bundle. The same table goes into the exported diagnostic report, so it travels with a bug report.

The exported report also carries a feed filter table, and that one counts whether or not diagnostic logging is on. Several different routes can put a video on a profile page or in the feed, and a screenshot of an advert cannot say which one delivered it. The table gives a line per route: how many lists it was handed, how many videos were in them, how many it took out, and the last reason it gave. A route with no line has never run, which is the useful half, because a hook that never fired looks exactly like a filter that decided to keep everything.

Feature Gate Lab saves its master switch immediately. Its menu can reset overrides while the switch is off, reset all Lab data, or undo the last reset or import. Imported values stay disabled. The Lab holds up to 1,024 saved rules, and it rejects a save or import that would exceed that limit before anything changes. Reset all Lab data can recover an older oversized store without clearing other Hushfeed settings. Changes run in the background and report their result with a notification. Every filtered list in settings, the hidden creator editor, the share checklist and the Lab shows and announces its current result count. Removing a hidden creator says which entry was removed and moves focus to the next action. The recorder discards an interrupted session before taking the next baseline. Copied recorder reports use Android's sensitive-content flag on supported versions. Reports above 60,000 characters stay off the clipboard and use Save JSON. The undo copy stores Lab configuration privately; full-reset undo also restores captured observations during the same app run. Other patch preferences are unchanged.

Building from source

Use JDK 21 or newer and an Android SDK configured through local.properties. GitHub Packages needs GITHUB_ACTOR and a GITHUB_TOKEN with read:packages access for the Morphe dependencies.

Run the runtime and patch tests, then build the Morphe patch bundle and metadata. The patch tests read the vendor TikTok APKs from the folder HUSHFEED_FIXTURE_DIR names (see CONTRIBUTING.md), and the release check refuses a run in which any of them skipped:

./gradlew :extensions:tiktok:test
./gradlew :patches:test
./gradlew :patches:generatePatchesList
pwsh -File scripts/validate-release-facts.ps1
./gradlew :patches:buildAndroid

The bundle is byte reproducible: two builds of the same commit produce the same file and the same SHA-256, so you can rebuild it yourself and check the published checksum against your own. The one field that would otherwise differ, the build timestamp in the bundle manifest, is pinned to the commit being built. Set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to override it. buildAndroid ends by copying the finished bundle to patches/build/release/ and writing bundle.sha256 beside it, so the checksum always describes the file next to it.

Run these tasks in this order. The Android build finishes with verifyBundle, which checks the patch list and all three DEX payloads against the checksum recorded by the Android build. You can also run ./gradlew :patches:verifyBundle on its own to re-check the bundle this checkout built. It compares against a checksum only buildAndroid writes, so it will not verify a bundle from anywhere else.

A release tag can point to the tested commit already on the remote branch. The push check verifies that commit against the remote before treating the tag as a pointer-only change. New branches and tags with other targets still run the file-change checks. Publish the release asset before updating patches-bundle.json.

The device-only patch and verification helpers read the signing password from HUSHFEED_SIDELOAD_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD. If it is unset, they use sideload, the password for the local test keystore. The helpers pass a response-file or environment reference to their child signing process, so the password value does not appear in that process's command line. patch-for-device.ps1 reads its package and version from patches-list.json. With -Replace, it removes TikTok only when the device returns an installed package path. A clean phone goes straight to installation, while a failed device query stops the script.

Each release ships a provenance receipt beside the .mpp, release-receipt-<version>.json. A checksum tells you a file arrived unaltered. It cannot tell you which APK the patches were proved against, which commit built the bundle, or what patching did to the Android manifest, and those are the facts that decide whether the bundle you downloaded is the one the release notes describe. The receipt records the tag, the full commit and its timestamp, the bundle's size, hash and manifest stamp, every extension payload's hash, and for each retained TikTok fixture: the APK's package, version and SHA-256, a verdict for every patch in the catalog, and the stock-to-patched difference in requested permissions and exported components.

scripts/build-release-receipt.ps1 writes it by actually patching each fixture with the Morphe desktop CLI, so the verdicts come out of the patcher's own report rather than from a claim. It refuses to run against a working tree with uncommitted changes: a bundle built from a dirty tree carries a wall-clock timestamp instead of the commit pin, and nobody could then rebuild it from the source the receipt names. validate-release-facts.ps1 checks the receipt on every run that has one and requires one for a release, and it refuses any manifest change that is not written down in scripts/manifest-delta-allowlist.txt. That list is empty on purpose. The patches change bytecode, not the manifest, and a release stops if that ever stops being true. An entry the patches no longer produce fails the run too, so the list cannot outlive the review it records.

verify-injected-registers.ps1 compares the patched APK with the exact 46.2.3 vendor fixture. The static half rejects an injected instruction outside its method's register count, a removed host method, or a removed DEX file. The optional device half requires the clean and patched Android verifier messages to match by text and count. Each device run removes its uploaded APK and generated ART files, including after a failed command. Reviewed removals must be exact method or dex entries in scripts/injected-register-removal-allowlist.txt; stale entries fail the run.

Gradle dependency verification is checked in at gradle/verification-metadata.xml. It records the reviewed release graph with SHA-256 checksums, so a changed cached artifact fails during dependency resolution. Every Bouncy Castle request in the build is rewritten to the reviewed 1.86 release, and two verification tasks check it: the TikTok extension tests check their own graph, and the patch tests check the build graph the Morphe patcher arrives on. Both read the request underneath the rewrite rather than the version it produced, so an unreviewed release stops the build instead of being quietly replaced. mavenLocal() is disabled by default, including the repository the Morphe settings plugin adds. Use -PallowMavenLocal=true only while developing a local plugin artifact, and leave it off for release builds. The wrapper distribution checksum in gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties matches Gradle's published 9.7.1 binary.

To save offscreen screenshots, run ./gradlew :extensions:tiktok:test -PscreenshotDir=<absolute-directory>. The suite opens every settings section in dark and light themes, saves a value through the native picker, and exercises Lab search and overrides. A German fixture checks larger text at 360 dp width, and a Spanish one checks the same page at twice the text size on a 320 dp screen.

Worker-backed settings and Feature Gate Lab tests drain their owned executors before asserting, reset per-sandbox state before each case, and keep the region semantics check separate from the API ICU cross-check. These assertions do not depend on screenshot output or polling sleeps. Lab boundary tests reject malformed persisted scalars without replacing native values, keep imported rules disabled, clear runtime state across master and reset cycles, and hold recorder limits under concurrent calls. Translation batches expire before a visible fallback is retried, while SIM preset matching accepts missing values and keeps unsupported region fallbacks native.

Runtime tests cover feed marker and sound filters using both getter and field model shapes. Empty metadata and unrelated ids remain eligible; matching markers and sound phrases are rejected by their enabled filters. Shared resource lookup and global-layout ownership cover the feed, inbox and share hooks, with replacement, detach and failed-install fixtures for the host boundaries. A failed install also detaches the prior root before returning. Sticker publication tests keep collision protection on Android 9 and earlier. Native boundary tests cover structured numeric coercion and overflow, URL scheme refusal, destination roots, media fallback and frame bounds, plus direct navigation, share, LIVE, sound and translation policy shapes. Codec playback and final container behavior remain native-device checks. Deep feed tests cover all five count ranges through real responses, repeated response caching, late and final follow delivery, cached and offline fallback policy, hard-filter preservation and bounded probe rotation. The content fixtures reject swallowed runtime failures. Account-write challenge fixtures cover the supported follow, like, comment, repost and story routes found in TikTok 46.2.3. Follow tests drive all seven write routes through the refusal notice and verify that retained requests stop growing at the diagnostic limit. Direct and stream results consume their own request IDs; a skipped request can't reuse an earlier one. Diagnostic account pseudonyms use HMAC-SHA-256 with an installation key. Deliberately broken routes and readers must fail their regression tests. Video overlay traversals reuse their id, visibility and match buffers, so repeated layout passes do not rebuild the container lists. A synthetic 200-pass trace over 80 cells measured 57.68 ms before the change and 56.09 ms after it. Legacy settings import tests cover complete JSON and older text fragments, rejecting invalid values before any preference changes. Numeric tokens retain their precision until validation, and literal NUL characters cannot hide trailing data in imports or undo files.

The finished bundle is written to:

patches/build/release/patches-<version>.mpp

Publish that file. patches/build/libs holds one with the same name, but any later Gradle task that rebuilds the jar (the patch tests do) turns it back into a plain jar with no DEX payload, and Morphe Manager then shows zero patches. Nothing in scripts/ reads from there.

Morphe reads patches-bundle.json from this repository, downloads the .mpp release asset listed there, and loads the patch metadata from that bundle.

After uploading the bundle and a SHA256SUMS.txt file to the GitHub release, verify the published asset against the local build:

pwsh -File scripts/validate-release-facts.ps1 -VerifyPublishedAsset -ArtifactPath patches/build/release/patches-<version>.mpp

The check follows the indexed URL, compares its SHA-256 with the local artifact, checks the matching entry in SHA256SUMS.txt, and counts the patches inside the published bundle against the number the index advertises.

That last one needs the Morphe desktop CLI. Set HUSHFEED_DESKTOP_JAR to the jar, or put morphe-desktop-<version>-all.jar under HUSHFEED_WORKDIR or build/morphe-tools, and it is found on its own. Without it the check stops rather than passing, because the count is the only part that reads what people actually download. The CLI wants a JDK 21 or newer, which is often not the java first on PATH: HUSHFEED_JAVA or JAVA_HOME says which one to use. When -Java names a directory, that directory must contain bin/java.exe or bin/java; an invalid explicit directory is reported instead of falling back to PATH.

Adding a language to the settings screen

The English text in the code is the key. Each language is one table under extensions/tiktok/src/main/l10n/, with the English on the left and the translation on the right. A language is kept in one of two forms, and the generator reads both. de.tsv is tab separated, one entry per line, # starting a comment. in.csv is the comma form Weblate hosts: a source,target header and a row per entry, quoting whatever needs it. Copy either one to <language code>.tsv or <language code>.csv, translate the right hand column, then run:

python scripts/gen-l10n.py
./gradlew :extensions:tiktok:test

The script writes two generated files, neither of them meant to be edited by hand. L10nTranslations.java is what the extension carries with its own code. en.csv is the list of source strings, which is the monolingual base a Weblate project points at, so a translator can work in Weblate and the export drops straight into l10n/ as <language code>.csv. The tests fail on any settings text that has no entry, on a language missing one, and on a table whose values are not the ones in the generated class, so both a gap and a stale run of the script show up before anything ships. Name the file with the code Android reports, which for the three languages that have two is the older one: in rather than id. The generator makes the table answer to both. The translations used to go into TikTok's own resources, but merging a few hundred strings into a table of 74,765 pushed patching past the memory Morphe Manager allows by default.

Supported target

• App: TikTok, the global package com.zhiliaoapp.musically
• Version: 47.0.3, released 19 September 2026
• Build: version code 2024700030, arm64-v8a and armeabi-v7a, nodpi, minSdk 23
• SHA-256 of the APK every patch was verified against: f4d853f6ccaf145a9b5f106b8e63767e2345e17ae829b6cc6b272fdf0161389c

A patched app inherits TikTok's target SDK, which is 36 today. Android 17 raises that to 37, and the changes that come with it were audited against everything Hushfeed injects: nothing it adds loads code from a file, subclasses Thread, writes a static final field through reflection or keeps audio going without a foreground service, and a connection the platform refuses is reported with its reason rather than retried. Forcing those changes on a running build still needs an Android 17 device, which is why the audit says checked in source and not checked on a phone.

Why you have to fetch that APK yourself

Google Play only ever serves the newest build it thinks your device can run, so the copy on your phone may not be 47.0.3, and there is no way to ask Play for a specific older build. Take the APK from APKMirror, which serves the exact version, then patch that file rather than the installed app.

APKMirror also offers some TikTok releases as bundles, using an .apkm file. Morphe Manager merges one into a single APK and keeps TikTok's own file paths, so AMOLED dark theme can rebuild its resources without losing any. The desktop CLI's merge moves every resource file into a new folder, and rebuilding that loses about 1,400 files and makes TikTok crash at launch, so the dark theme refuses it with a message saying why. On a computer, patch the plain 47.0.3 APK if you want the dark theme.

Why that version and not a newer one

Patches use named components where TikTok retains them and code patterns where names are stripped. Both can change between builds. 47.0.3 is the declared target. All 91 patches apply to the reviewed APK, and the retained 46.2.3, 46.7.3, 46.8.3 and 46.9.3 builds remain regression fixtures rather than advertised targets. Another build can fail loudly when an anchor moves or, worse, accept the wrong shape.

Only the global package is declared in the compatibility metadata.

The four resource optimizers are off by default. Before changing the APK, they compare the complete target set with reviewed paths and SHA-256 digests from the retained fixtures. An exact group that is already completely empty is accepted. A missing, extra, altered or partly emptied set stops patching. The 47.0.3 and 46.2.3 checks cover both arm64-v8a and armeabi-v7a native libraries; the retained 46.7.3, 46.8.3 and 46.9.3 fixtures provide additional regression coverage. Language packs also require a reviewed inventory, keep English, and preserve both Android aliases for Hebrew and Indonesian when either one is selected.

Moving from Kveld

Hushfeed now contains the eight Kveld TikTok optimizers that were not already here. Kveld's Feed Ad Blocker behavior is covered by Feed filter, and its Npth startup coverage is part of Disable telemetry. Remove or disable Kveld's TikTok patches after updating Hushfeed. Keeping both current sources at their defaults activates all eight shared optimizer names because Kveld marks them on by default, even though the Hushfeed copies are optional.

Bundle combination	Result from the recorded 46.2.3 migration test
Current Hushfeed source by itself	Supported. The eight optimizers stay off until selected.
Released Hushfeed 0.30.2 plus Kveld 1.23.1	Migration-tested. Each Kveld TikTok root passed beside Hushfeed's 34 defaults. All 44 roots also passed in both source orders.
Current Hushfeed plus Kveld at defaults	Do not use this setup. Kveld's eight shared optimizers turn on automatically, and its separate feed and telemetry patches duplicate Hushfeed behavior.
Current Hushfeed plus Kveld with all ten Kveld TikTok roots disabled	The desktop CLI returns to the exact 34 Hushfeed defaults, but keeping the duplicate source provides no TikTok benefit.

The migration matrix pinned Hushfeed 0.30.2 at 7645fb6dc8023ee445e623fa4ab83e9f76035916171fa00182a4e617a72101c4 and Kveld 1.23.1 at 28aa9a57c93b2e49482fd9b3f3bc359b0174c37ffb93cc9c5fc0155a8a65c7e1. Both full-order outputs had 26,072 entries and the same uncompressed entry-content SHA-256, 2a9a786e86ad356985e795a99b1ca4f97962c4dad20b43c8c58aa6d0d6e5ab3d. Neither order changed the 62 permissions, 648 named components or 66 exported components. Morphe desktop 1.15.0 applies an explicit duplicate name from the bundle supplied last, which is another reason to keep only one source for these patches.

Recorded one-at-a-time migration output hashes

These whole-file SHA-256 values identify the recorded 2026-09-13 runs. ZIP metadata can make a repeat produce a different whole-file hash, so the entry-content hash above is the stable full-order comparison.

Kveld root beside Hushfeed defaults	Patched APK SHA-256
Remove content credential and card scanner assets	849334dae2ec808ec75c718e382defa93608849d299abf07288c18e7886beb15
Feed Ad Blocker	54a70673b12e00519e022e3a2e541f116a62b7b1a952d34e49058833a94c6a4e
Skip the splash ad	3f3cf431d3193ae21c828de5c7aa5f4fdfe3223c64eff8954138120161e95d6d
Remove unused language packs	5495eb30a61eaf5897d491c70286ff552c2d8f5513b7c908c13e955329687fb1
Remove LIVE extras	c9795096850a8d4ad719511372553bbaf2726714b5bf170007be30849ad5a6b2
Limit background traffic	cc12a76919de78573789914d8033d40cee064325e334c1db7658e17175473357
Drop the animated image cache	dd78aae02796a33ec510f077c91a7e2a3dc947a17b5bb9288f888679f5a1710d
Remove creation tools	a0696fc12f49fc900b5eafdffd55992f09d1f0958e0ff5865180979d1eaff711
Unified Telemetry & Tracker Silencer	a7b92689c1b31a71dee627ea1ff0a84b273995a3f4aa02af212aa7e6c6b477a2
Skip update checks	56031325e755f9c4523ee4c6330d3515beb0e20a108e21d7026147d025689e9c

Project structure

• patches/: Kotlin patch definitions, fingerprints and shared patch utilities.
• extensions/: Java extension code the patches inject into TikTok, with the Robolectric tests beside it.
• extensions/tiktok/src/main/l10n/: the settings translation tables.
• scripts/: gen-l10n.py generates translations, verify-all-patches.ps1 checks every patch against a fixture, patch-for-device.ps1 builds a signed APK for a named phone, measure-patch-heap.ps1 checks selected memory limits, and validate-release-facts.ps1 checks the public version, patch facts, indexed URL and published bundle hash. common.ps1 holds the helpers the rest of them share: the work-directory path guard, the cleanup that will not delete outside it, the version read and the desktop CLI lookup. test-script-contracts.ps1 covers all of those, the shared target reader and the guarded replacement step, which files a push runs which gate on, and that a released version keeps its changelog heading. It also checks that a first branch push examines the complete resulting tree, that phone input reads and targets the focused window on display 0, and that result reports can include declared patch dependencies without hiding a missing or unrelated patch.
• patches-list.json: generated patch metadata.
• patches-bundle.json: the Morphe source index for the published bundle.

Credits

Hushfeed stands on a lot of other people's work, and the licence asks that this stays visible.

• icysymmetra/tiktok-patches-for-morphe, the Metra patches this project was forked from. Most of the original patch set, the settings framework and the Feature Gate Lab come from there, as does the release history below 0.8.0 in the changelog.
• kveld9/kveld-morphe-patches for the eight optional TikTok optimizer patches and the extra Npth telemetry coverage, adapted from v1.23.1 at commit fcb1768620b8f98a6dd31e801074589ce9a63356.
• ReVanced, whose TikTok patches the whole lineage continues, and RookieEnough/De-Vanced, which upstream was built from.
• hxreborn/hxreborn-tiktok-patches for the inbox injectors, the telemetry patch, the risk control CAPTCHA hook and several feed card filters.
• BlueDragon4251/tiktok-patches-for-morphe for the seen video filter, the gate recorder and the download quality ideas.
• eduardo3677-ai/tiktok-patches-for-morphe for Ghost mode.
• @lyyako for the sanitize sharing links hook, the seekbar patch, the anti-recording patch, Open external links directly and Always show publish date.
• @oscski for Disable the long press repost.
• The Morphe team for the patcher, the manager and the patches template.

Files that came from another project keep their original notices, and files written here say so in their header. A test holds every source file the bundle ships to having one, so a file cannot arrive without saying where it came from.

The notices are also in the app, under Settings, About, Licenses, because Morphe asks that they reach the person using the software and not just the person reading the source.

Privacy

Hushfeed has no server of its own and collects nothing. Everything it adds runs inside TikTok on your phone.

It goes online by itself for one job. When you save a video, a photo, a sound, subtitles, a sticker or a profile picture, it downloads that file over HTTPS from the address TikTok's own data holds for it. It won't fetch from an address on your own network, and it gives up after five redirects. Anything else Hushfeed does online, such as translating a comment or blocking a creator, goes through TikTok's own code to TikTok's servers, the way the app's own buttons do.

The only web addresses written into Hushfeed's code are github.com for this project, gitlab.com and gnu.org for licence texts, and tiktok.com for the share links TikTok itself uses. A test fails the build if another one turns up, or if code outside that download path opens a connection.

The diagnostic report stays on your phone until you copy or save it. It leaves out web addresses, login tokens and cookies, device ids, the ids of videos, comments and messages, and creator names and handles. Read it through before you share it anyway.

Notes

• Hushfeed is not affiliated with TikTok, ByteDance or Morphe. "For Morphe" describes compatibility, nothing more.
• Patching a client TikTok didn't ship is your call. Some accounts see CAPTCHA checks or find that follows don't land on patched builds. Follow diagnostics says so when it happens, and the CAPTCHA hide never touches a CAPTCHA raised over a follow, like, comment or repost.
• Everything Hushfeed adds runs inside TikTok, as TikTok. It has the permissions TikTok has and can reach the data TikTok can reach, so installing a patched build is the same trust decision as installing any app: you are trusting whoever produced the code. Read it before you run it. That is what the source is for.
• This repository and its GitHub releases are the only official source. Anything else offering a Hushfeed build, however similar the name or the site looks, was not made here.
• Bugs and concrete feature requests go in the issue tracker. Include the TikTok version, the patch involved, and what you expected.
• Questions, half-formed ideas and general chat go in Discussions. Release news is posted there too, under Announcements.

License

GPLv3, inherited from the projects Hushfeed was built on. See LICENSE and NOTICE. The same notices are reachable on a patched phone under Settings, About, Licenses.