How to Hide Reposts on TikTok
There is no privacy switch for this. There is an undo button, and that is a different thing.
You cannot hide reposts on TikTok. There is no privacy setting that makes your reposts invisible to your followers while leaving them in place, because a repost exists in order to be seen by them.
What you can do is undo one. Open the video, tap the share arrow, and choose the repost option again — it now reads as removing the repost. The video leaves your followers' feeds going forward.
For other people's reposts cluttering your own feed, the controls are different: hold down on a video and tell TikTok to show less, or unfollow the person whose reposts you keep seeing.
Those are the two real answers. Everything else being written about this describes a setting that does not exist.
It is worth being precise about why no such setting exists, because it reframes the question.
TikTok has two surfaces that look similar and are not. Liked videos can be hidden — there is a privacy setting for that, and it is on by default for newer accounts, which is why your likes are not public. Saved videos are private by design and always have been.
Reposts are neither. A repost is not a record of what you enjoyed; it is an act of distribution. You are asking TikTok to put the video in front of your followers. A hidden repost would be a repost that does nothing, which is a contradiction rather than a missing feature.
This trips people up because the three actions sit in the same share and interaction menus and feel equivalent. They are not: like is a signal to the algorithm, save is a note to yourself, and repost is publishing.
So if what you want is to keep a video without anybody knowing, the action is save, not repost. Saved videos are visible only to you, they are organized into collections, and nothing about them reaches your followers. A large share of people searching for how to hide reposts actually wanted the save button and used the wrong one.
Undoing a repost you made
Open the video. Tap the share arrow on the right, and the sheet that opens now shows the repost control in its removal state.
Tapping it withdraws the repost. The video stops appearing in your followers' feeds from that moment.
It does not retract what people already saw, and anybody who engaged with it while it was reposted did so on their own copy of the feed. There is no recall.
You can also find your reposts by opening your own profile and looking for the reposts tab, where one exists. The tab has appeared and disappeared across versions, which is why it is not always there.
What your followers actually see
A repost appears in the For You feed of people who follow you, labeled with your name.
It does not appear on your profile grid alongside your own videos, which is the detail that makes people think it is semi-private. It is not — the grid is simply not where it lives.
The creator of the original video keeps all the engagement. Views, likes and comments accrue to them, not to you.
TikTok has shown creators how many times a video was reposted. Treat the action as public and attributed.
Stopping other people's reposts in your feed
Hold down on a video and choose the option to see less of this kind of content. That teaches the recommendation rather than filtering a category.
There is no switch that says hide all reposts. TikTok does not treat them as a separate content type you can exclude.
If the reposts filling your feed come from one person, unfollowing is the only reliable fix, and muting is not offered as an alternative here.
The Following feed is more chronological and less repost-heavy than For You, which is a partial workaround for people who mainly want to see the accounts they chose.
Save is the button most people wanted
Tap the bookmark icon on a video and it goes into your saved items, reachable from your profile.
Saved videos are private. Nothing reaches your followers, nothing appears in anybody's feed, and the creator is not told.
They can be organized into collections, which makes them genuinely useful as a reference library rather than an undifferentiated pile.
The save does count as a signal to TikTok about the video, which creators can see in aggregate — but it says nothing about who saved it.
Why saves are the number creators watch
A save means the viewer intends to come back. That is a stronger statement than a like and it correlates with the thing TikTok actually optimizes for, which is time spent.
It also has a second-order effect: a saved video gets rewatched, and rewatches lift the watch-through rate that drives distribution.
So on the publishing side, saves per view is a more useful health metric than likes per view, and a video with an unusual save rate is worth studying rather than a video with an unusual like rate.
For a viewer, none of this costs anything. For a creator, it is the signal worth designing the first three seconds around.
Questions people ask about TikTok reposts
Can I make my reposts private?
No. There is no privacy setting for reposts, because a repost exists to put a video in your followers' feeds. You can only undo one.
How do I undo a repost?
Open the video, tap the share arrow, and choose the repost control again. It removes the video from your followers' feeds from that point onward.
Do reposts show on my profile?
Not on the grid with your own videos. A reposts tab has appeared in some versions, but the repost itself lives in other people's feeds.
How do I stop seeing other people's reposts?
Hold down on a video and choose to see less of it, or unfollow the account. There is no setting that excludes reposts as a category.
What should I use instead of repost to keep a video?
The save bookmark. Saved videos are private, organized into collections, and never reach your followers.
Does the original creator benefit from my repost?
Yes. Views, likes and comments all accrue to their video. You are distributing it, not republishing it.
Keep reading
- views on a TikTok video — Everything the platform decides about a video is decided in its first hours, and views on a TikTok video is aimed at that window.
- what can actually be hidden on a profile — Some lists do have a privacy switch, and what can actually be hidden on a profile covers which.
- whether your likes are public — Likes and reposts behave differently and get confused constantly, and whether your likes are public settles the other half.