TikTok is one step closer to being shut down in the US: On Friday, the Supreme Court upheld a law mandating that ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, must either divest the app or face a nationwide ban.Â
The ban is now set for Sunday, Jan. 19. On that date, TikTok could become impossible for new users to download and unusable for those who currently have the app. After that? It remains to be seen.
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If you're a TikTok user, especially a creator, you're probably worried about a number of things. Will TikTok really disappear on Sunday? Are there any similar apps that you can switch over to? Will all your TikTok videos get deleted?
If you're concerned about that last one, you should think about saving all the videos you've posted on TikTok -- you don't want them getting lost to the ether. Luckily, the downloading process is pretty straightforward.
For more, check out how to make your TikTok videos better and 11 privacy settings to change on TikTok.
How to download all your TikTok videos on your iPhone and Android
On your Apple or Android device, open the TikTok app and tap Profile in the bottom right of the navigation bar. Now go to any video you've posted, hit the three-dot menu button on the bottom right, and tap the Save video button. That will download the video to your phone's video library.
Your video will be saved to your camera roll without any of the TikTok watermarks.
If you have drafts you want to save, the process is similar but not exactly the same. Go into your drafts, tap a video and then hit Save on the menu in the right of the editor.
Once you exit, make sure to keep your draft saved or else it could be deleted.
There's no way to do this for every video at once, so it might become burdensome if you have dozens, or even hundreds, of videos posted to TikTok.
If TikTok really goes away, maybe it's time to look for some alternatives. Bluesky is also a big deal these days.