How to create a TikTok draft
When creating TikTok content, you can save your drafts directly in the app. If you’re curious about how to use drafts on TikTok, we have everything you need to know.
TikTok‘s popular drafts feature makes it easy for creators to edit and preview their content prior to posting. This allows creators to work on their videos in stages, before sharing them with the world.
Here’s everything you need to know if you want to start using the draft feature on TikTok.
Once you’ve saved your video, your draft will appear in a dedicated folder at the top of your profile page.
Once you’ve saved your draft, you’re able to go in and edit it or add to it at any time.
You may find that after filming a draft, you’d like to keep the footage that you filmed, but not necessarily post it. Fortunately, there is now a direct option to save drafts to your camera roll.
It’s easy to start collecting a huge number of drafts if you continue to film videos without posting them, which could take up space on your phone. Fortunately, deleting drafts on TikTok is simple.
It’s also worth noting that if you decide to uninstall TikTok, all of your saved drafts will get deleted.
While published TikTok videos can be recovered from the ‘recently deleted’ folder, drafts are unrecoverable so we recommend backing any drafts up if you plan on uninstalling the TikTok just to be safe.
Other TikTok users cannot see your TikTok drafts.As it stands, only you can see your TikTok drafts as they are stored locally on your phone, or other device, rather than on TikTok’s servers.
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Georgina Smith was an Entertainment Writer on Dexerto’s UK team, specializing in viral, TikTok, YouTube and Twitch content. She also covered reality TV shows from Below Deck to Love Island.
