IRL people keep finding my TikTok accounts

I really want to post on TikTok but I keep getting recommended people I knew/know IRL, on my old phone i kept getting people recommended even with my contacts off, I think TikTok still accesses them without permission.

I’ve switched phones and I got them again with a burner email and without having a phone number or any contacts, I was doing very well on my new account but I got people I knew recommended IRL again, it’s so frustrating because I had to private my account and I really want to post.

the browser version shadow bans me every time i create an account on there or post from there and it’s impossible to post from there.

This has been bugging me so much for over a year now.

I created a new account with a new gmail, should I be worried about anyone finding it, does TikTok transfer the data from my old accounts on the app to my new one? does it recommend over WiFi even with tracking off on iOS? I’m exhausted and I really can’t do this privating my account thing anymore

Billions of people use this app and millions have secret accounts so idk why I’m the only one with these issues. Im almost 18 and yet i still can’t post on the most popular app on this earth, it’s long overdue that I can, this is really important to me.

(My family is very strict. )