Is TikTok leaking drafts? How to keep your private videos safe Unsplash: Solen FeyissaTikTok users are reporting that the app may be leaking their drafts, potentially sharing videos to the platform that were never supposed to be seen by anyone besides the creator. Here\u2019s how to best protect your drafts if the rumors are true. For any app or service, customer safety is often a top priority. Users want to know that their private information or, in this case, content, won\u2019t be accessible to anybody else. That said, anything that takes place online can be in some way hacked or bugged to create issues of private information and data being shared, and it looks like this might be happening on TikTok. For anyone who regularly uses the app, you\u2019ll probably have a huge backlog of videos in your drafts just sitting there doing nothing \u2013 but this might not exactly be the case. Rumors that TikTok has been posting people\u2019s drafts without their knowledge have been around since as far back as at least 2020, but they reignited in August 2022 after several videos claiming it was happening again started to gain traction. Is TikTok posting drafts? The short answer to the question is that we don\u2019t have enough evidence yet to suggest that the app is leaking drafts \u2013 but some users have suggested that their drafts ARE mysteriously being published without their knowledge. One user claimed \u201cTikTok just randomly posted one of my drafts, 100k people saw it, I\u2019m gonna cry,\u201d with other videos claiming similar incidents happened to them garnering tens of thousands of likes and views. It\u2019s not clear whether these reports are legitimate, but regardless, the potential of TikTok leaking drafts is understandably concerning for many users. How to stop your TikTok drafts being leaked The simple solution to stopping your TikTok drafts from being leaked is to delete them. By not having them on the app at all, you don\u2019t have to worry about any of them being posted without your knowledge. If you\u2019re not happy for your drafts to be seen, you should delete them altogether but, if you do want to keep them, you can simply save them to your device so you don\u2019t lose them entirely. If you find your drafts have been leaked, the best option would be to try and delete the video, but if for some reason you\u2019re not able to, it\u2019s worth contacting TikTok customer support to try and get the issue resolved. As stated above, there isn\u2019t extensive evidence that the application is leaking drafts, but it\u2019s better to be safe than sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Is TikTok leaking drafts? How to keep your private videos safe Unsplash: Solen FeyissaTikTok users are reporting that the app may be leaking their drafts, potentially sharing videos to the platform that were never supposed to be seen by anyone besides the creator. Here\u2019s how to best protect your drafts if the rumors are true. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}