Top 10 Tips & Tricks Every TikTok User Should Know About

Bryan J. Switalski
3 min readJan 4, 2020

TikTok videos are very engaging and make us addictive to watch them. You can like and share your favorite TikTok videos as the app has algorithms that detect your likes to show you more similar videos.

It’s very easy to create your own TikTok videos and the app has various editing features that help you make great videos.

Have you tried making your own?

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By creating interesting videos on TikTok, you can gain a lot of followers and some people even become famous. You can also upload marketing videos on TikTok for your brand’s promotion.

But few people know these cool tricks you can use in TikTok app.

Keep reading this article to know about these tips and tricks that’ll help you while watching and creating TikTok videos.

1. Upload Videos from Your Phone

It’s always not easy to record videos instantly. You can pre-record videos using phone’s camera and later upload in TikTok directly. Go to TikTok app and use “Plus” sign, tap on “Upload” button found at the bottom-left corner to select and upload videos.

2. Create Automatic Slideshows

You can create a slideshow video using multiple pictures. For this, you have to follow the same steps shown above, just choose multiple images instead of a video while uploading and it’ll create a slideshow.

3. Download Other’s Videos

While watching videos on TikTok home screen, you can also download a video and save it to phone for offline viewing. For this, tap on the share icon situated at the right side and you’ll see the option “Save Video”, tap on this to download video.

4. Stop Others from Downloading Your Videos

Using the above-mentioned option, others can also download your TikTok videos. To stop this, go to “Privacy and Safety” under your profile settings, tap on “Allow Download” and choose “Off” so that your videos can’t be downloaded.

5. Delete Your Own Videos

In case you uploaded a video mistakenly on TikTok or don’t like the published video, you can delete it easily. Open the video you want to delete and tap on three-dots, you’ll find the option to delete.

6. Turn a Video in Live Wallpaper

If you like a video enough and want to make that as a live wallpaper of your phone, you can do it too. Go to the video, tap on share button and hit “Live Photo” option. Video will be saved as a live wallpaper in your phone.

7. Make Use of TikTok Codes

TikTok Code can be found at your profile screen which looks like a QR code. It can be used to connect with friends, brands, and other TikTok users. You can share it with others and can also scan other’s code.

8. Switch Your Profile to Private

Though public profiles tend to perform more on TikTok. In case you want to convert your profile private, go to “Privacy and Safety” and enable the “Private Account” option.

9. Record Using Timer Feature

Each time you can’t hold the record button to create videos. You can use the timer option found at the video-capture screen, tap on timer icon and video recording will be automatically started after a few seconds.

10. Adjust Speed of Your Videos

You can find the option at bottom of the video-capture screen to record your videos at .3x, .5x, 1x, 2x, or 3x speed. You can also make some edits at preview screen to adjust speed of videos.

Way to Go

Make use of all these tips and tricks while using TikTok from the next time. I hope these 10 tricks will help you while watching or creating TikTok videos and enjoy TikTok even more.

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Bryan J. Switalski
Bryan J. Switalski

Written by Bryan J. Switalski

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