# Account warming

> Mature new TikTok accounts before posting: human-like browsing that builds algorithm signal.

Fresh TikTok accounts that immediately start posting look like bots. Warming fixes that. Pamba browses TikTok and Instagram on the account's device like a human would (watching, scrolling, searching your niche) to build an algorithm signal before and between posts. With a workspace niche set, each session judges what it watches against the niche, likes in-niche videos more often, and now and then follows the creator of an in-niche video, so the account's feed moves toward your niche.

## How it works

- **Session queue**: warming sessions are scheduled automatically and listed with status: pending, in progress, completed, failed, cancelled.
- **Per-avatar config**: set daily minutes, session count, and niche search terms for each avatar's account.
- **Session review**: the account's Activity card shows each session's status, length, what it did (videos watched, likes, comment reads, creators followed, the search term) and sample screenshots, with a link to the full set; each post and each daily health check shows the phone's screenshots the same way, and profile edits sit in the same feed, newest first. An account with no avatar carries the card on its own page; an account assigned to an avatar opens it from the Activity action on its row in the avatar's Accounts tab. A cancelled session was stopped before or while it ran: most often a post or a new account's setup took the phone and the session was re-booked; otherwise the account was paused, reassigned or taken off the phone, it was cancelled by hand, or the phone was cleared for maintenance. One stopped mid-run still shows what it got through.
- **Cancel and retry**: stop pending sessions or retry failed ones.

## Warming boost

A boost warms one account harder for a set time, then lets it go back to its own pace by itself. Use it on a new account, or on one whose feed has drifted away from your niche: sessions that open with a search on your niche terms are what pull a feed back, and a boost can make every session search.

- **What it changes**: the number of warming sessions per day (1 to 5; the normal pace is 3) and the chance each session opens with a search (0 to 1; normally 0.35). Set either or both, for 1 hour up to 14 days; changing the sessions per day needs at least a day. The day's warming never gets shorter than the account's own. Searches use the account's search terms, or the workspace's niche terms when it has none.
- **When it applies**: the search chance applies from the next session. The daily sessions are booked early each morning (10:00 UTC), so a boost started during the day adds sessions from the next day on. A boost only changes sessions the account gets anyway: an account whose warming is off or paused stays off.
- **What it leaves alone**: the account's settings and search terms. When the boost ends, on its own or when you end it early, there is nothing to undo. Renaming the account also ends its boost.
- **Where to set it**: ask the assistant, or use the API (`PUT /devices/accounts/warming/boost`, see the API reference). It works for accounts assigned to an avatar and unassigned ones alike.

## Safety caps

Warming stays within platform norms, boosts included: at most 60 minutes per day across at most 5 sessions per day per account, and at most one follow per session and 20 follows per account in any seven days. Ads and creators who look under 18 are never liked or followed. Posts and account setup take priority: a scheduled post can displace a warming session on the same device, and a new account being set up on that device takes the slot of a session that has not started yet. A displaced session is re-booked.

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