Tiktok Drafts: How to Save, Find & Delete Drafts on Tiktok
If you want your TikTok account to go viral, there is one thing you need to master: Timing, which means posting the right video at the right time.
While video quality matters, you’ll get better results if you post the right video at the right time.
The easiest way to ensure that a post will go viral is with drafts.
A draft is a video that is ready to be posted, but you can still edit.
Unlike public videos, only you can see a drafted video.
It’s a great way to save jokes and ensure the success of a video.
If you want to learn how to use the feature, here’s what you need to know:
- How to save TikTok drafts
- How to find drafts on TikTok
- How to delete TikTok drafts
How to Save Tiktok Drafts
You create a draft video like you create regular TikTok videos.
You can draft:
- Any original video
- A Stitch video
- Sounds
- Pictures
You can draft any video you want to! To do so, just follow these instructions:
Step 1: Open The TikTok App
Open the TikTok app on your device and then tap the big red button on the bottom of your screen.
You can also select Upload to upload a video from your device’s gallery.
Don’t forget to use video effects or add text to the video to make your content more interesting.
Once you edit the video you want to post, tap next.
Step 2: Create Your TikTok Draft
After you are done, try posting the video as regular.
On the post page, click on the Drafts folder icon on the bottom of the screen.
You can save more than one draft as long as there is free space on your phone.
Other Ways To Save Drafts
A TikTok video will be stored on the saved drafts folder automatically if you close the app suddenly.
The next time a user opens their account, the TikTok application will notify them that a draft is saved.
And while not “drafting,” you can save and download a video on your device to edit it later.
This is especially useful if you want to use a different device to edit it.
How to Find Drafts on Tiktok
So you saved a TikTok draft, and the question now is: how to get to drafts on TikTok?
It’s an easy process, to do so, just follow these instructions:
Step 1: Go To Your Profile Page
Open TikTok, then tap on your user’s profile icon on the bottom right corner of the screen.
Then, in the middle of the screen, tap Drafts. It’s the icon on the left.
From here, you’ll be able to see all your draft videos.
Step 2: Continue Editing Your Drafts
You can select drafts and continue the editing process.
Just tap one to go to the editing screen.
Once you are done, you can post it!
Posted content will appear on everyone’s feed unless you make the video private.
People use the private function to save drafts that are ready to be posted.
You can make a video private by selecting the Only Me option.
Important Note: Remember that you can have more than one draft saved on the TikTok cache.
You can also save a video draft directly to your camera roll like any regular video.
It’s a useful feature that will help you transfer your video to a new phone.
How to Delete Drafts on Tiktok
If you are done editing and didn’t like your video, you could always delete it. Here’s how you do it:
Step 1: Go To Your Drafts Folder
You can do so by clicking on your profile page and following the steps described above.
That’s going into your profile and going to the draft section.
Step 2: Delete Draft
Tap select on the top of the screen, then pick a draft.
Now just tap delete draft.
Be careful when deleting drafts, as a deleted draft can’t be recovered.
Other Ways To Delete Your Drafts On TikTok
TikTok drafts disappear whenever you uninstall the app or clear cache on TikTok.
That’s because they are stored locally on your device.
Meaning that if you switch from one device to a new device, you won’t see your TikTok draft videos.
Can You Recover A Deleted Draft?
Be careful when deleting drafts.
Once a draft is deleted, you won’t recover it.
If you don’t want to lose your drafts, you can always download them to another device.
How to Get Drafts Back on Tiktok (After Deleting Tiktok)
Since the drafts are stored only locally on your mobile device, once you delete TikTok app, your drafts will be gone too.
We recommend always making a backup copy of your drafts and download them to other device.
Conclusion
Saving videos as a draft is a great option to save your content for later.
Timing is key when posting videos so that they can be [seen by more people on Tiktok](see who views your Tiktok video “seen by more people on Tiktok”).
Before a user taps the post button, they should wonder if it’s the correct time to share the video.
For example, if you are making a Spiderman parody video, it will be smart to wait until the release of the next Spiderman movie.
You ought to be relevant!
We hope this article proved useful to you.
As a content writer, I learned a lot when doing the research.
TikTok Drafts FAQ
Where Are Drafts on Tiktok?
Drafts are private videos that can be edited.
When you post it, you make the private video public.
When you create drafts, you are ensuring the quality of your videos.
Do TikTok Drafts get Saved?
A draft is saved automatically whenever you close the TikTok app or on the post page.
To save a draft, TikTok users must click on the drafts folder on the posting page.
Karen is a senior technical writer and copywriter here at GrowFollowing. Her area of expertize are social media apps and new media.