Good TikTok videos can be hard to find, which is why users tend to save these to favorites or download them to their devices. In addition, after TikTok started supporting long videos, users formed the habit of saving long videos with lots of information to watch later. However, TikTok users will not be notified when their video is liked or downloaded. On the other hand, users will get a notification when someone likes or comments on a video.
TikTok is constantly developing and testing new features to enrich the user experience. The short video platform has released functions, such as ‘Friends tab, ”Bonus Program”, ‘Dislike Button’‘ There is much more. These features put TikTok in a favorable position between social media and entertainment platforms.
TikTok does not yet support allowing video creators (aka TikTokers) to know who has liked their videos or to save their videos to their devices. However, TikTok allows users to know how many times a video has been liked. This information is public as this record can be viewed by any user, which appears in ‘favourite‘ icon, which appears in the lower right corner of the video. Additionally, TikTok has improved the way favorites work in the past few updates, and users have discussed this in hundreds of videos.
Favorite and save TikTok videos
Users can love TikTok videos with just one click ‘Favorite icon when watching video. However, TikTok currently supports ‘Collection,‘ Users can create folders for each type of video. For example, users can create one folder for pet videos and another for informational videos. This feature works seamlessly.on click ‘favourite‘ icon, the application will ask whether to save or create a new collection. However, closing this popup still saves the video to favorites but not to any favorites.
TikTok may have decided not to notify users when someone has liked or saved their video, in order not to be disturbed by the barrage of notifications and to protect the privacy of others. However, TikTok users can manage their video’s storage and profile visibility. So if the profile is publicly accessible and the video is saveable, it’s okay for someone to save or favorite the video. Normally, TikTok users can click ‘favourite‘ icon on their profile. After opening the Favorites page, a menu appears with the names of the favorites. If any TikTok user doesn’t want anyone to save or favorite any of their videos, then the only solution is to make TikTok profile private. In this case, no one can watch the user’s video or interact with them unless they are an approved follower.
Source: Douyin