If the 2025 TikTok ban does happen, you may lose access to all your videos. Here’s how to easily download them to your phone.

As TikTok challenges its ban, it’s hard to ignore the fact that the social media platform could well be gone in less than a week. Currently, the TikTok ban is set for Jan. 19. On that date, it’ll likely become unavailable for new users to download. After that? The future is unclear for the moment.

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On Dec. 6, the US Court of Appeals upheld a law mandating that ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, must either divest the app or face a nationwide ban. This decision underscores the growing concern over the app’s ties to China and potential national security risks.

If you’re a TikTok user, especially a creator, you’re probably worried about a number of things. Will TikTok really disappear in January? 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. Or else they might get lost to the ether. Good thing it’s easy to do.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, there is 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, if you hadn’t already heard.