How to delete your TikTook account

If you’ve determined to delete your TikTook account for no matter motive, there’s excellent news — it’s comparatively straightforward to do and may solely take a couple of minutes (supplied you’re already logged in or bear in mind your password). The process might be carried out both within the app or on the net — right here’s how:

Deleting your TikTook via the app

TikTook makes it comparatively straightforward to delete your account via the iOS or Android app.

• Go to your profile, then faucet the three strains within the high proper nook, which ought to open the “Settings and privacy” display screen.
• Once you’re there, go to Manage account > Delete account.

• The app asks you why you’re leaving TikTook, and you may choose an possibility or select to skip the query utilizing the button within the high proper nook.
• After that, it’ll ask you if you wish to obtain your knowledge earlier than deleting your account, and also you’ll need to faucet the acknowledgment on the backside that you just wish to proceed deleting your account. (We will cowl backing up your TikTook knowledge within the part under.)

• You’ll be proven a display screen saying that you just’ll have 30 days to reactivate your account if you happen to change your thoughts and describing all of the belongings you’ll lose entry to after deleting your account (which incorporates entry to the movies you’ve posted).
• Tapping “Continue” will lead you to an account verification display screen. TikTook will ship you a code that it’s a must to enter when you have a regular account or will ask you to check in with the service that you just used to create your account (comparable to Apple, Google, and many others.).
• After verifying, faucet the “Delete account” button and ensure your determination one final time to mark your account for deletion. The app will refresh, and also you’ll be taken again to the login display screen.

Deleting your TikTook via the net

You may delete your TikTook account via the TikTook.com web site.

• After logging in, hover over your profile image within the high proper nook, then click on on Settings.
• If you’re not already on the “Manage account” display screen, choose it from the left sidebar.
• You can then click on the “Delete” button beneath Account management and observe the method.

Backing up your knowledge

To request a backup of your knowledge:

• Using the TikTook cellular app, go to your profile > Settings and privateness > Privacy > Download your knowledge.
• If you choose “TXT” as an possibility, you’ll find yourself with a human-readable textual content file. If you choose “JSON,” you’ll get a textual content file that’s formatted like Javascript, making it simpler to feed it into pc applications.
• Once your file’s been created, it’ll be on the “Download your data” display screen within the Download knowledge tab. TikTook warns that it might take just a few days earlier than your knowledge is offered to obtain, so that you’d be suggested to attend a bit earlier than deleting your account.

The file you get can embrace knowledge like your profile data, video and remark historical past, and settings data — but it surely doesn’t embrace your movies. If you wish to preserve these, you’ll need to obtain them manually.

To obtain considered one of your TikToks to your cellphone:

• Go to your profile and choose the video you need
• Tap the “…” button and choose “Save video.”

Recovering a deleted account

As TikTook mentions whenever you delete your account, you possibly can cease the method by logging again in inside 30 days. If you accomplish that, you’ll get a message saying your account has a deactivation pending. Tapping the “Reactivate” button will allow you to again in and cancel the deletion course of, whereas tapping the “Log out” button will permit the deletion course of to proceed.