If you have accidentally posted the draft you were editing, and you are wondering how to put a posted TikTok back in drafts?

There really is no way to do it if you have already published it, or want to do it after some time passed. Of course, there are other ways to do it without relying on TikTok. 

But there is also one single way to do it which requires you to act fast. 

In this article, we will discuss how you can put the posted TikTok back into drafts right after you misclick and also after a long time (doesn’t matter how long). 

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How to put TikTok back into drafts again

The only possible way to put the TikTok draft back to being draft is to act fast. By this we mean, you need to really be able to press the progress box that shows up once you click the post button. 

It will be in the left top corner of the phone, and the progress will be completing each second. 

Depending on how fast your internet is, you may be able to catch it before it completes. And if you do, you should hold for at least 2 seconds for it to give you an option. 

Then you should have two options: one for canceling, and one for quitting. Don’t get confused, quitting means that you don’t want the video to be posted yet and want to continue to be a draft. 

The other way to put the TikTok draft back again

If you did not know that these options existed or for some reason missed the loading time. You can also do the following:

• Save the video to your local device,
• Publish as a private, just to make sure it is still there,
• Upload it back again to post once more.

This is not the only way, you could upload the draft into the cloud, publish it straight up, or perhaps you have not deleted it from your local store so you already have a copy. 

Yet, in all these situations you will need to manually control the download and upload process of the draft. 

So, it is best to not forget to press the progress bar in case you accidentally posted it.  

To wrap up

If you have ever for whatever reasons post the draft you did not want to post. Now you know that you need to either immediately retract it by pressing on the progress bar.  

Because otherwise, you will need to go the longer route, which will have you download and upload manually. 

If you watched an interesting clip but forgot to follow or leave a like, and you want to find that person back again. 

Perhaps, your friend just joined the TikTok platform and you want to support them by following and engaging with their content. 

Thus, you need to find the person, but you don’t know the username and you need another way to find the person. 

To find someone on TikTok without a username is simple but you will need either their phone number or email, or perhaps have the device nearby so that you could scan the QR

In this blog, we will talk about all the possible ways to find someone on TikTok without a username and show you each step by step.

Phone number	Email	Name
Device (QR code)	Location	Facebook

Before we get started, you need to understand that it is not that simple to find someone without any information, you will need the following information or one of them at least to find an account on TikTok 

Aslo, make sure you have a TikTok account because no other method will work unless you have a TikTok not only installed but with a proper user account.

You can find them using their phone numbers 

When you create your account using your phone number, you will already have a list of people suggested as friends from your contact list. 

Whether you follow them or not, they will remain on the list unless you click on the  x  that is right beside the  Follow text.

This makes it easy to follow people that are already on your contact list. However, you can also find other people by entering their phone numbers into your contact list and saving it.

After that, you can come back to the TikTok platform to find them.

It is also possible to click on the magnifying glass 🔍 that is usually located on the right top side of your screen. Then enter the phone number to seek if the account associated with that phone number exists.

You can find people using their email 

It is also possible to find people using their email.

However, to be able to find other users with their email, you must have done something correctly from the start. 

If you have not done that correctly from the start, it is impossible to find other people. 

That thing is the synchronization of your account with the email contacts.  If you have not done it from the start, when you look for people from that magnifying glass that we have just shown you, won’t help you. 

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In fact, if you had created your account with your email, then the list of the account that shows up when you first log in to the platform is the contacts from that particular email.

Thus, adding people will be very easy if you also signed up with your email.

However, there is one simple remedy to fix this and to be able to find people using their email: 

• You need to go to the profile page

• Click on the three horizontal lines on the right top

• Follow it by with another tap on the settings and privacy

• From there go to the manage account

• Add your email to the email field. 

Once you add your email on the add friends menu, you will have the contacts listed among contacts option that is usually right below the search bar. 

You can find it by looking at their location

The other interesting way to find someone on TikTok without a username is by checking their location. 

It is quite similar to what we have just talked about above. But with fewer steps and easier to carry out. 

• So: all you need to do is to open the app
• Click on the magnifying glass on the right-top

From there enter the name of the city you are looking for that someone in.

Then, TikTok will list first all the top clips in that location, after an ad, all the other accounts. 

Thus, you could technically scroll through other accounts in that location and find the person you are looking for. 

By scanning the QR 

The other and quite a convenient way to find someone on TikTok without a username is to scan the QR code of an account.

Of course, to get to the process of scanning you will need to have the device nearby. Which in and of itself is not an easy thing to do.

However, you need to be careful to let someone else scan your QR code if you don’t know the person. Of course the chances of your letting someone else scan it if you don’t know the person are low.

But the warning was supposed to be given out so that you proceed with heed. 

• So, to find someone by scanning their QR, first, you must open the app
• Then go to the friends option 
• From there click on the icon on the top left side of the screen that looks like a profile with plus
• Then you should see an option to scan another QR code on the right-top side of your screen.

However, if you are the one that is not scanning the device but letting someone scan it, then you should follow the same steps but the QR will be located right below the scanning function.

It is also possible to screen capture the QR code and send it to other people if you so wish. However, as mentioned above, you should be extremely careful to send those codes to other people as they can use it to do other things to your account that you would not expect or want. 

Through Facebook 

Perhaps, by far the easiest method should be to find someone on TikTok is through Facebook. It may seem that Facebook is a rival platform for TikTok, but it actually is quite not in this case. 

Even if it were, the number of people that have Facebook far outweighs the number of people who own the TikTok app. That means the someone you are looking for is likely to have a Facebook account as well. 

To find people with a Facebook account: 

• Open the app
• Go to the friends menu
• Click on the Facebook icon
• Sync it with your Facebook 

Once you let Facebook have access to your contacts, your Facebook friends will be listed among the other people that are usually alright below. 

By the name 

In this blog, we have listed 5 ways to find someone on TikTok without your username, and the 6th the easiest one is by their name. 

Don’t get the name and the username mixed up, because they are not the same thing. One is the real name you have, which is what your parents gave you. The other is what you chose which can be anything. 

But usually, the username is something that people choose with a certain purpose. We can’t talk about that but we will tell you how to find someone without using the username but their name.

Of course, this is going to assume that you know their name, and if you don’t you will need to opt for one of those methods above and choose the appropriate one for your situation.

But to find people using just their names:

1. Open the app
2. Go to the magnifying glass that you will be able to see on the right top side
3. Or you can also go to the friends menu 
4. Write the name of the person you are looking for 
5. You should have it as the first person that pops up if you correctly chose the name

Our verdict 

To find someone on TikTok is quite easy as we have indicated here. It is possible to find people using at least one of the information about them like;

• Phone number 
• Email
• Location 
• QR code
• Name 

Of course, having a username and name would be the easiest and fastest way to find someone on TikTok. 

However, when you don’t have it, you could turn to one of the methods you learn here ad still be able to find that special person you are reading a whole article about. 

If you find yourself changing your phone, but you had already prepared a few drafts on your old phone to publish to your TikTok account. 

Now you might be wondering how you can transfer TikTok drafts to another phone because you don’t want to spend time making them again. 

If that is the case, or otherwise, this article will cover everything about transferring your drafts to another phone in a few simple steps.

However, before we jump into answering the question of transferring your drafts to another phone, let us find out if the app doesn’t do it automatically.

Does TikTok transfer the clips to another phone when you change them?

When you log into your TikTok account from a new mobile application, everything that was on your mobile will be showing up.  

That includes the account details, preferences, and published clips, all except for the drafts. 

Because drafts are saved differently on your mobile device. One of the reasons why TikTok takes up so much space as time goes by. 

Thus, you will need to know how to transfer your drafts over with the other data, and that is precisely what we are going to be discussing next, as it is the main topic of the article.

How to transfer drafts to another phone 

Transferring drafts to another phone is not really a difficult task for a tech-savvy person. But it requires a bit of attention and focus, so you won’t misdo any of the steps. 

Because then, you might risk not only losing your drafts but not being able to find them ever again even on your old phone. 

To transfer your drafts to another phone do the following:

Phase 1 

• Open the app, and go to the profile page 
• You can go to the profile page by clicking on the picture icon on the right corner
• Then you will have three options which will look like the picture below 

The first one is where your drafts will be located. 

Remember though, that this is also where all the other videos that you have published are located. So, it may be a bit difficult to find your draft if you have a lot of videos. 

But don’t worry, TikTok made it easy for you by writing inserting a shallow watermark on drafts as “draft”. 

That means, they will each have a draft written on them. But it will disappear when you download or publish, the draft word is just there to help you identify.

Phase 2

• When you find the draft you want to transfer over to the other device, tap to open it.

• Then you are going to want to tap "Next" to open the post setting page

• From there you need to set the “Who can watch this video” setting to “Only me”

• Then click on the "More options" option that starts with three dots. 

• From there you will see more options where you can set the “Save to device” slider either on or off, make sure to turn it on.

• Then hit "Post" and look for it in the private videos section of your menu.

Phase 3

At this stage, you could really log into your account from your new device and the draft will still be there. 

Of course, the draft won’t be a draft, it will be there as a private video now. But if you want to keep it as a draft, you can start this step by deleting the private ex-draft video that you posted. 

Because that is how you will know that it got transferred. 

Then, you can double-check if you really download the video, by going to your device’s storage, and checking for it. 

But just because you now have that clip on your local device, that doesn't really mean it is going to be there, so you need to find a way to save it either on the cloud or on a memory card.

It is also possible to use Google Drive for this purpose. 

Phase 4 

This is when you log into your account from the new device and download it from your Drive to the local storage from where you can upload it to TikTok.

While this may seem like a bit of a hassle and a long and difficult way to do it. At this point, the app itself doesn't offer any other alternatives to transfer drafts over to new devices. 

So, users need to find creative ways like this to manage that. Google Drive is not the single best solution, you can try other things like shareIt app, memory card, or any other method that transfers data from one device to another.

But as you might have already understood it has to be manual for drafts if you want to keep them as drafts. 

Also, don’t forget the clips you downloaded will have their TikTok watermark on them, and it is almost impossible to remove them. 

To wrap up 

To wrap up this piece, all we can say about transferring your TikTok drafts to another phone is that you need to do it manually. 

Perhaps in the future, TikTok may come up with a new feature that will allow it. Till then, you are stuck with methods like ours. 

In fact, these are the easiest and the best way to trade TikTok drafts from one phone to another.