How to Delete a Repost on TikTok

The Repost button sits right next to Like and Comment, so it's easy to tap by accident — and once you do, that video gets pushed to your followers' feeds with your name on it. The good news: removing a repost takes three taps and leaves no trace. Here's how, and where reposts actually show up so you can find the one you want to undo.

What a repost even does

Reposting is TikTok's version of a retweet. When you repost, the video is recommended to your followers in their For You feed, tagged as something you reposted. It does not get added to your own profile — so if you're looking for the repost on your profile grid to delete it, that's why you can't find it. A repost lives in other people's feeds, not on your page.

How to remove a repost, step by step

This is the same on iPhone and Android:

1. Open the video you reposted. The quickest way is to go back to the creator's profile and open the video, or find it again in your search or watch history. (More ways to locate it below.)
2. Tap the Share arrow on the right side — the same one you used to repost.
3. Tap Remove Repost. If you've reposted it, the Repost icon in that menu is highlighted and now reads Remove Repost. Tap it and the repost is undone immediately.

There's no confirmation pop-up and no undo — but you can always repost again later if you change your mind. Removing it simply pulls it back out of your followers' feeds.

Can't find the video you reposted?

Because reposts don't show on your profile, tracking down an old one can be fiddly. A few ways to find it:

• Retrace the creator. If you remember whose video it was, open their profile and the video is there — the Share menu will show Remove Repost if it's still active.
• Check your watch history. Go to Profile → menu (☰) → Settings and privacy → Comment and watch history → Watch history to find recently viewed videos.
• Ask a follower. A repost you can't locate is still visible to the people it was pushed to; a friend who follows you may be able to open it and send it back to you.

Does anyone get notified when you un-repost?

No. The original creator isn't told when you repost or when you remove it, and your followers don't get an alert either — the video just quietly stops appearing as your repost. So if you tapped it by mistake, removing it is clean; nobody gets a notification about the whole thing.

Repost vs. saving a video for yourself

People sometimes repost a video when what they actually wanted was a private copy to keep or rewatch. Those are different things: a repost broadcasts the video to your followers, while saving keeps it just for you. If you want your own copy without pushing it to anyone, download it instead — the TikTok video downloader saves a clean, no-watermark MP4 to your device, and nobody knows you did. To simply revisit a creator's posts without following or reposting, the anonymous viewer lets you browse their profile without logging in.

That's the whole fix. Reposts feel permanent because they don't sit on your profile where you'd expect to delete them — but the Remove Repost button is always right there in the Share menu, and undoing one is as quiet as it gets.