TikTok Shop bans AI-enhanced before-and-after clips: claims checklist
TikTok Shop bars digitally enhanced before-and-after, instant-result claims and medical claims. Lint caption text before you burn it into a video.
An AI-enhanced before-and-after is out on TikTok Shop. The 2026 content success guide says no digitally enhanced before-and-after, and the AI content page prohibits unrealistic results such as instant hair growth or cavity removal. Caption text is part of the same problem: claims like "results in 3 days" need disclaimers. Check the words before you burn them into the video, because Sume's caption job burns exactly what you send.
What is not allowed
Two TikTok pages, summarized.
| Rule | Source page |
|---|---|
| No digitally enhanced before-and-after | Content success guide |
| No filters or effects that falsely imply results | Content success guide |
| No AI-generated misleading functionality claims | Content success guide |
| No medical, weight-loss or supernatural claims, or instant transformations such as "results in 3 days", without disclaimers | Content success guide |
| No unrealistic results (instant hair growth, cavity removal) | AI-generated content page |
| No altering product size, color, material, quantity, features or safety attributes | AI-generated content page |
| Multiple breaches inside 90 days trigger removal of e-commerce permissions | Content success guide |
Lint the caption text first
Video captions burns text onto a video. With cues (or segments) you send authored text with text, start and end in seconds, and Sume burns that text at those times without speech recognition. A standalone caption job is $0.20 for videos of up to 60 seconds under the current estimate, so a bad claim you have to re-burn costs another $0.20 plus the delay.
Run a simple check on your cue list before you submit: flag time-bound outcome phrases ("in 3 days"), body-change words, and the words "cure", "guaranteed" and "instant". This list is a suggestion, not TikTok's list. TikTok's list is the page, and it says disclaimers can make some of these claims acceptable, so route flagged lines to a person.
Before-and-after without enhancement
The pages do not give a safe recipe. They say the enhancement is the problem, so a genuine, unretouched comparison filmed on camera is a different case than a generated one. Do not use a generated or AI-enhanced image as the "after" for a product that claims to change something.
Checklist
- No generated "after" images or enhanced footage.
- No effect or filter implying a result.
- Caption lines checked for time-bound or medical wording.
- Product shown matches what the customer receives.
- Keep a record of the review for each clip.
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