Using your phone number, username, or email address, enter your password, solve the slide captcha, and then get an error: “Maximum number of attempts reached, try again later.” I assume you are using your phone, your username, or your email address as login; however, I suggest using the email. I also assume you have no trouble with the slider captcha verification.
If you try to search online for how to fix this error, the solutions will generally gravitate toward the same question: does TikTok use Wi-Fi? I tried all of them, and I can definitely say that you do not need a SIM card in your phone to access the TikTok app. This raises another question: how do all those tablets without a SIM card log into TikTok without any problem?
No, you don’t need location enabled on your device. No, you don’t have to switch from your Wi-Fi network to your mobile carrier for internet or connect to a different Wi-Fi. You don’t need a foreign VPN to resolve this problem. You don’t need to clear TikTok application storage data and cache. You don’t need to reinstall it, and you definitely don’t need to factory reset your phone.
Some online armchair advisors suggest wild solutions, such as disabling or enabling Wi-Fi throttling in Android developer settings to solve this error. And also, you don’t have to wait—none of that works because this issue has nothing to do with your network connection.
The reason I am telling you this is that I have two phones connected to the same router, to the same provider. One of them is my old phone, where I can log in and log out, change passwords, and log back into the TikTok app with no problem. But the new phone I’m switching to cannot log into TikTok, showing the “maximum attempts reached” error.
The real reason TikTok doesn’t allow you to log in is that it thinks your account is being stolen since you are trying to log in from a new device that you have never used to access your TikTok account before.
All you need to do to resolve this issue is to click “Forgot password.” It is important to do this on the phone and in the app that shows you the error—not on your second device, not on your computer, but on the device where you have this problem. After you tap on “Forgot password,” you will have two options to send the confirmation code: to your phone associated with this account or to the associated email.
I chose the associated email, received the code on that email address, entered the code, and then changed the password. As soon as you do that, you can log into the app using this new password. This time around, the error will be gone, and you will be able to access your TikTok account.