Scrolling through your For You page offers up a smorgasbord of content to take in. With a few swipes of your finger, you could find yourself watching a confidence-boosting pep talk, going behind the scenes of a fashion show, or learning how to grow herbs in your kitchen.
With so much information to take in, it’s only natural that you might like to save a couple of videos to watch at a later date and time without having to open the TikTok app. In this guide, we’ll show you how to download TikTok videos — both with and without the watermark.
You’ll likely want to take care of a few vital to-dos before you learn how to download TikTok videos to your iPhone. Let’s review those now.
he first thing you’ll want to do is make sure you have enough storage space available on your iPhone. Photos and videos can take up a lot of space, and chances are that you have some pictures on your Camera Roll that you can do without. While you could go through and manually delete all the pics you no longer need, CleanMy®Phone makes this process easier by automatically sorting through your photos to find duplicate images, blurry pictures, screenshots, and other useless stuff.
Here’s how to free up space on your iPhone using CleanMy®Phone:
Before you proceed any further, it’s important to consider whether any copyright infringement issues could arise from downloading a TikTok video. According to TikTok’s Community Guidelines, users cannot post, share, or send any content that violates someone else’s copyrights, trademarks, or intellectual property rights.
The most common copyright issue is posting someone else’s content as if it’s your own. To prevent this, TikTok applies a watermark featuring both its logo and the username of the account that originally posted the content anytime a video from the app is shared or downloaded. In other words, if you plan to repost the video on another social media platform, make sure the watermark is visible or that you give full credit to the user in another way.
Now that you have everything in place, it’s time to learn how to download a TikTok video to your iPhone from the app.
Here’s how to save one of your own videos from the TikTok app:
After you follow these instructions, your TikTok video will be saved to your Camera Roll. This can be super helpful when you make your own sound for a TikTok video and want to save that video to your iPhone for safe keeping.
Unfortunately, there is no setting available at this time to automatically save all of the TikToks you post. You have to save each video manually after you’ve posted it.
While you may not be able to automatically download every TikTok you post, you can save all your TikTok data at once by following these steps:
Within four days, TikTok will notify you that your download is ready, and you can save it to your iPhone.
Want to download another user’s video from TikTok? It’s easy! Here’s how:
This will save the video directly to your Camera Roll.
If you don’t see an option to save a TikTok video, that means the user has their download settings turned off and does not allow people to save their videos. This is an optional setting that you can utilize if you wish to prevent other users from downloading your videos.
Here’s how to access your account’s download settings:
From there, you can choose to turn your download settings on and off.
TikTok does not notify the user when you save their video. Instead, when you save a video, TikTok will label it as a Share in the user’s TikTok Analytics.
If you download a lot of TikTok videos, they quickly pile up and take a lot of space on your iPhone. CleanMy®Phone we mentioned earlier can find those videos in no time, so you can delete anything you no longer need. Just use its Declutter module as described above and check the TikTok category.
As previously stated, a downloaded TikTok video will include a watermark featuring the app’s logo and the username of the account. However, there are a few ways to download a TikTok video without the watermark.
One way to download a TikTok video without the watermark is to download it as a Live Photo and then convert it to a video. This will still result in a small watermark, but you will be able to easily crop it out. Here’s how:
Following these instructions will turn the Live Photo into a video on your Camera Roll. Again, there will still be a small watermark present at the bottom-right of the screen, but you can easily crop it out using the Camera Roll’s cropping tool.
There are multiple third-party apps that can help you download TikTok videos without watermarks. Here, we’ll show you how to download a watermark-free TikTok using the app TikSave:
Following these instructions will save the video to your Camera Roll without a watermark.
TikSave is free to download in the App Store and comes with a free 3-day trial. After that, it’s $4.99 a week to use.
No room on your iPhone? You can also download TikTok videos onto your desktop computer. Here’s how:
Following these instructions will save the selected TikTok video to your computer.
Downloading TikTok videos is a simple way to ensure that you can enjoy your favorite videos wherever you are. We hope this guide answered all of your questions about downloading your videos — with and without watermarks!