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).
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.
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.
How to find someone on TikTok without username [6 simple ways]
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.
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.
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:
Open the app
Go to the magnifying glass that you will be able to see on the right top side
Or you can also go to the friends menu
Write the name of the person you are looking for
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.
How to transfer TikTok drafts to another phone
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.
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.
Why does my TikTok keep resetting
Have you had issues with resetting TikTok?
Do you think that TikTok just without your authorization or knowledge resets?
If you had any of the following issues and want to fix them, you are in the right place
This happens usually with only the newer uses. The main cause seems to be that the TikTok platform hasn’t yet figured out your likes and dislikes and your overall behavior on the platform.
Why does TikTok keep resetting my settings?
If TikTok is really trying to reset your settings then there's a big chance someone is trying to hack you. That means you need to take an action immediately!
The only possible explanation for when it could reset your settings is if someone else is trying to remove the device you logged in to.
Considering that you're possibly logged in from devices that you own. This isn't likely to happen that often.
However, it could also be that someone else trying to log in with the wrong credentials which happen to be yours. And for the algorithm, this is still a signal that another person in another part of the world trying to log in with your credentials. That will be detected as suspicious activity.
Those cases can automatically reset your settings or maybe even log you out of your app to make sure that your account stays safe.
We are going to talk about how you can counteract this behavior and fix TikTok resetting. Till then in case this happens you need to make sure that you remember your password or any other code that you use to log in.
So that, when you try to log in, you're not going to get banned. And in case your settings got reset, you can also make sure to change your password to a better one that's hard to hack. Also, make sure to let the app that they can trust your device.
Why does TikTok keep resetting my username?
Having your username recent on TikTok is another part of the problem. When the app resets, it is likely that it will reset not just your settings but also your username and other such details.
So in both cases, you're going to want to make sure to have a strong password.
They update the app frequently. According to some sources, the update of the app could be causing not just the resetting. But also the refreshing of your screen while you have the app open.
There are of course other more serious things you can do to keep your phone from resetting; such as rebooting your phone, uninstalling, and installing back the app itself.
Although these serious methods are better reserved to try for more serious cases. You can still try them if you are afraid that the other methods won’t help.
Why does TikTok keep resetting my account to private
From our previous observations. We have noticed that the app resets an account to private only been it has an important update and the update gets sent to all the users of the platform.
This is exactly what happened when TikTok made new changes for users who are under 16 years old. Because it wasn't a crucial change, the app reset all the user's accounts to what it previously was.
In other words, this is sort of like a glitch but not a bad one. This means you don't really have to worry about it's.
If you are not 16 years old, you can easily change it back to how it was. However, if you do happen to be 16 years old and changing it back may require you to do some verification especially if you live in the EU or the US.
For everyone else, next, we are going to be talking about how to stop TikTok from resetting or fix it if this happened to you.
How to stop TikTok from resetting
If your TikTok was reset for whatever reason. There are ways you can fix it or restore your account. It is impossible to prevent the platform from doing any resets or changes, or even some weird behaviors.
However, there are things you can do to get your account back on track, has it happened to your profile as well?
Clear cache TikTok
Clearing the cache is another proven way to fix your issue with TikTok resetting. Although this may not bring back your lost data, it is likely going to stop the platform from further resetting and so on.
However, if clearing the cache doesn't help, there are a few other things you can do that sure must help.
Reboot your phone
Rebooting your phone is the next thing you can do to stop TikTok from resetting. When you reboot, the app and everything else will restart. This should give the algorithm a better understanding of how you are and what your interests are.
A newer and fresher look into the old data may help it save the right data. That will not glitch or reset when you are online scrolling down the latest on your feed.
Rebooting is useful as long as you did not have serious damage to your profile. However sometimes, you and your username, and other crucial information are deleted as a result of an unexpected reset from the platform.
That state may remain regardless of your reboot. This is when you can try these other methods that we are going to discuss now
Update the TikTok app
Another way to keep away from all sorts of resets and unexpected behavior is to keep the app up to date all the time. But that doesn’t mean updating it when you are using it.
Because there once was a bug that caused people to get their profiles reset due to the update happening while the app was on.
The updating process got the users' interests confused which sometimes resulted in the algorithm refreshing the FYP page even when the user was watching.
So, updating the TikTok app will not only help you from resetting but also from refreshing unnecessarily and unexpectedly.
Uninstall and install
If none of the above helps you to recover from being reset. Then you should try uninstalling the app, then install it back again.
Because, when you uninstall everything about yourself and your profile will be lost and gone. This may be not the best thing to do if you don’t want to lose all your data.
But if you don’t, you might still lose all your data without your prior knowledge or permission.
If you uninstall knowingly though, you might be able to download or keep some of the data before thus, giving you more freedom and control of your profile and data.
To Wrap up
Tiktok as a platform doesn’t do resets, but it did due to some glitches and unprecedented errors which caused some backlash from its users.
But regardless of what happens, the platform is always keeping out for its users and is ready to bring about changes to keep them happy.
If you ever think why does TikTok keep resetting then, you shouldn't anymore for we have discussed the causes and the possible solutions.
Who can watch this video” setting to “Only me”