A good way of sharing your content and increasing the visibility of your TikTok videos and profile is to enable users to share and download your posts.
Having said that there are plenty of reasons why you may not want other users to save and download your content – preferring them to share it on the platform, like, and comment, to keep the engagement directly linked to your profile.
If this is your preference and you want to prevent users from downloading your content onto their device, there is a process that you can follow to turn off the ‘Save Video’ function.
How Does the ‘save Video’ Tool Work?
Before we dive into the process of turning off the ‘Save Video’ tool, it’s worth first understanding how the feature works.
When a user sees a video that they might want to save, download, and share on another platform direct from their device, they can click on the sweeping arrow ‘Share’ icon and select ‘Save Video’. But if this button isn’t available, it means that the creator has switched the feature off.
3 Steps to Turn off the ‘save Video’ Tool
- Navigate to your profile page on TikTok and click on the menu button in the top right hand corner, indicated by the three horizontal lines
- Select ‘Settings and Privacy’ then ‘Privacy’
- Scroll down and select ‘Downloads’
If the ‘Downloads’ toggle is switched on, then you are allowing other users to download and save your videos. To turn the function off, make sure that the toggle is switched off.
As soon as you confirm this action, the ability of users to save your videos will disappear instantly.
We hope this helps. The ability to save and download videos is flexible and can be adjusted according to your preference as a creator.
