Well, TikTok understands the plight and offers a couple of measures to reduce the visibility of your videos. In this short guide, you’ll learn about both the methods mentioned above. So, let’s take a break from recording to see how to archive a TikTok and relieve some privacy anxiety from your mind.
Privacy Settings on TikTok
If you have the appropriate privacy settings for your account, you may not need to archive any uploaded videos. You can make the following changes from the privacy section of the profile menu.
Making your account private: Only the users you approve can view your TikTok videos if you make your account private.Blocking select users: When you block a user, they cannot view your TikTok videos or send direct messages to your account.Modifying Duet and Stitch settings: You can switch the settings to restrict who can use your TikTok videos for Duets and Stitches. It gives you additional privacy as people who can’t see your videos might still observe the Duets shared by others.
How To Archive a TikTok
Unfortunately, TikTok has no official function to archive your videos. Still, there are two primary methods that you can follow to limit their visibility.
Method #1: Deleting Your TikTok After Saving It on Your Device
This is a sure-shot way to archive a TikTok offline. This way, even if someone has access to your account, they can’t view your video. You can choose to reupload and edit the video as required, should you change your mind in the future. To save a TikTok video on your phone and delete it, follow these steps: TikTok clarifies from their User’s Agreement that they don’t save any of the videos on their servers once you delete them.
Method #2: Increasing the Privacy of Your Video
Another way to (kind of) archive your TikTok is to change its privacy settings. You can do so through the method mentioned below. It is faster and doesn’t take up any space on your phone. Your changes should come into effect immediately. Remember, you can always change the privacy settings in the future if you wish to make your TikTok public again.
Parting Words
TikTok makes it rather convenient to exercise your privacy by restricting access to your videos. Depending on your situation, you can delete the video entirely or make it privy to a limited audience. It would be nice if TikTok provided a dedicated archive function to make the process much smoother. Although, with the way TikTok is using up server space to keep the public videos up, it seems like a far-fetched dream at best.
