How Do I Delete A TikTok Video?

TIktok is an incredibly fun and exciting app to enjoy. Once you have worked out how to add filters, effects, and other aspects to your videos, you will be able to make videos on a consistent basis.

After a number of days or weeks of consistently making videos, you may experience some difficulty when navigating your gallery of videos.

Whenever this occurs, you may wish to remove videos that have no relevance to your page or brand anymore.

As your TikTok presence continues to grow alongside your list of followers, you may also want to reinvent your brand.

Unfortunately, deciding to create a new page means that you will lose all of your followers.

Thus, the best way to obtain your goal of reinventing yourself is to remove any old videos by deleting them.

Within this article, we will outline all that you need to know about how to delete TikTok videos alongside other content from TikTok entirely.

How To Delete A Video

Removing any videos that you no longer want from your TikTok is an incredibly easy process.

1. All you need to do is open up the app before visiting your profile. Once you have reached this point, you will see the full list of videos that you have posted.
2. Next, select the video that you no longer want to appear on your page, playing it in fullscreen.
3. While this is happening, you will see three dots appear in the bottom-right corner of your screen. Tap these dots, and you will be shown a list of available options to consider.
4. Choose delete, and confirm by pressing delete once more.
5. Whenever the pop-up menu appears, you can swipe from left to right until you see a trash can icon appear. Tap onto this icon and the video will disappear automatically from your gallery. The app will always ask you to confirm that you want to delete the video and you should tap yes again to confirm that you want to do so.

If your settings also allow for other users to be able to download the video, there is little that you can do about this.

Even if you decide to remove the video from your own gallery, someone else may have downloaded a copy of the video which can be reuploaded onto their own profile.

This is why it is crucial to doctor your privacy settings to avoid this from happening.

How To Make A Video Private

One alternative to deleting your video is to make it private. This is a great option if you do not want to impact the algorithm negatively by deleting your videos, as you can remove them from public view without deleting them entirely.

It also ensures that you do not need to save any videos to your camera roll, as they can be stored within a private folder located in the TikTok app itself.

In order to make your videos private, you need to implement the following steps:

1. Open the video in question.
2. Tap onto the three dots, and open up privacy settings.
3. Select ‘who can watch this video’.
4. Change your settings to the ‘only me’ option in order to make your videos private.
5. Your selected videos will remain in the private folder where only you can access them until you decide to move them back into your gallery or delete them entirely.
6. Whenever you decide to make your video accessible to the public again, you can go back to your profile and tap on the lock icon, then follow the same steps to reverse the process by selecting ‘everyone’ as opposed to ‘only me’.

How To Delete A TikTok Account

Until very recently, the only means of deleting your TikTok account was by contacting their customer support team.

Your request then had to be approved prior to the deletion of your account.

This caused a number of user issues as the process could take a number of days to occur.

Thus, TIkTok has introduced the ‘thinking about removing your account’ feature that has been designed in order to make the process easier amd smoother.

You should bear in mind that you will need to add your phone number to your account prior to being able to delete it.

How To Delete A Saved Video on TikTok

Perhaps you have saved a video that you wish to remove. If you have saved a video as a draft and you wish to delete it, you can easily remove it from your page.

You can also remove numerous drafts at any given time. In order to delete an individual draft, you should click on the ‘drafts’ tab at the top of your gallery, select the videos that you wish to delete, before pressing discard/delete.

Conclusion

To conclude, deleting a video on TikTok is an easy and relatively painless process that does not require much effort at all.

All you need to do is click onto the video that you wish to remove, and select the three dots in the bottom right corner prior to clicking delete.

This process takes less than a minute and is incredibly easy to enact.

Alternatively, if you wish to make a video private as opposed to deleting it, you merely need to adjust the privacy settings on any given video.

It is always preferable to make a video private as opposed to deleting it from your gallery entirely.

This is because TIkTok has been known to penalize users for deleting videos.

Deleting videos on TikTok can have a negative impact on the algorithm, thus, you should consider making unwanted videos private as opposed to deleting them if you are concerned that it may have an impact on your overall reach.

I hope that you have found this article useful and thank you for reading.

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