Record and edit your TikTok video. If you want to save your edits on a TikTok video without posting it, you can easily save the video as a draft. Start by creating the TikTok you want to save.
When you save a video-in-progress as a draft, you can open it for editing later to record more clips, add transitions, and more.
Tap Drafts. It’s at the bottom-left corner. This saves your video as a draft that you can edit and post whenever you’d like.
Your drafts are only available on the phone or tablet on which you create them. If you switch to another phone, you won’t be able to access your drafts on that device.
Tap a draft to open it for editing. You can now add or edit music, create text and captions, apply effects, and use any of TikTok’s other editing tools.
Want to record more video for this TikTok? Tap the back arrow at the top-left corner of your draft, then select Continue recording to return to the camera screen.
Save or share your finished video. When you’re finished making changes, you have several options:
To share your video on TikTok, tap Next, enter your caption and preferences, and then tap Post.
If you’re not ready to share yet, tap Next and then tap Drafts at the bottom-left to re-save the draft.
Tap Post to Story to share the video to your story, which is a feature that appears on your profile for 24 hours before disappearing (just like Instagram and Snapchat stories).
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Why can’t I find my TikTok drafts?
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Drafts are saved on your phone or tablet, not on TikTok’s servers. If you switch phones, do a factory reset, or uninstall and reinstall TikTok, your drafts will disappear.
Are you using the same phone or tablet on which you created the draft you’re looking for? If not, and you still have TikTok on the other phone or tablet, you can still access the draft on the other device.
Unfortunately, even though drafts are saved locally, TikTok doesn’t add drafts to your camera roll. This means that you won’t find the draft in your Photos or Gallery app after deleting TikTok.
To save a draft to your phone so you don’t lose it, you’ll need to post it to TikTok. But it’s okay if you’re not ready to share the draft publicly—you can just post it privately! Here’s how:
Tap the draft in your Drafts folder and make any final changes.
Tap Next.
Set the visibility to Yourself.
Tap More options and toggle on the “Save to device” option.
Tap the back button and then tap Post. This posts the video privately and saves it to your camera roll.
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By using this service, some information may be shared with YouTube.
Tips
If you need to log out of TikTok, don’t worry—you won’t lose your drafts. Just make sure you don’t delete the app!
