Can You See Who Shared Your TikTok? Shares, Favorites and Reposts Explained

Three ways to pass a video along, three counters, and only one of them carries a name. Knowing which is which explains most of what TikTok shows you.

Updated September 2026

Can you see who shared your video on TikTok?

No. The share count tells you how many times, and TikTok's analytics can tell you more about the totals, but no screen in TikTok lists the accounts that shared a video by link, message or to another app. That's deliberate: sharing to a friend in a private message would stop feeling private if the creator could see it.

What you can see, as of September 2026:

• Share count: public, under the arrow icon on the video.
• Favorites count: public, under the bookmark icon.
• Reposts: attributed to the reposter, visible on their profile's Reposts tab and labeled in their followers' feeds.
• Analytics for the creator: totals for views, likes, comments, shares and saves per video, plus where views came from. No names.

Can you see who reposted your TikTok?

Partly. A repost is public in the sense that it appears on the reposter's profile and is labeled for their followers, so you may come across it, and some versions of the app notify creators of reposts. But TikTok doesn't provide a dependable, complete list of every account that reposted a video, and reports of how notifications behave vary between app versions. Treat any names you see as a sample.

Can you see who saved your TikTok?

No. The favorites count under the bookmark icon shows how many people saved the video, and TikTok doesn't identify them. The saver's Favorites collection is private unless they've chosen to make it visible on their profile. Even then, TikTok doesn't notify you, and the only way to find out would be to browse someone's public Favorites yourself.

How to see who favorited your TikTok

There isn't a way, and apps that claim otherwise can't get the data from TikTok. What you can see is the count, and in your analytics how saves compare across your videos. A video that's saved far more often than your usual is one people want to return to, which usually means it's useful: a recipe, a tutorial, a list.

How to see favorites on TikTok

Your own favorites are on your profile: tap the bookmark tab to see the videos, sounds, effects and other items you've saved, organized into collections if you've made any. To control whether others can see them, look for the favorite videos option in your privacy settings; the default keeps them private.

Someone else's favorites are visible only if they've switched that setting on. If the bookmark tab doesn't appear on their profile, their favorites are private.

Can you control how your TikTok is shared?

Partly. TikTok doesn't let you switch off the share button on a public video, because sharing is how a public video travels. What it does let you control are the ways people can reuse the video, and who can see it in the first place:

• Downloads: you can turn off saving your videos to people's devices, account-wide in privacy settings or per video.
• Duets and Stitches: you can limit or turn off both, which controls whether others can build their own videos on yours.
• Audience: a video set to friends or only you can't reach strangers, so it can't be shared beyond the people allowed to see it.
• Private account: only approved followers see your videos, which narrows sharing to that group.

How to repost on TikTok, and how to undo it

On a video you want to pass to your followers, tap the share arrow and choose Repost. The video goes onto your Reposts tab and can appear in your followers' feeds with your name on it. To take it back, open the same video, tap the share arrow again and choose to remove the repost. Because a repost puts your name on someone else's video, it's worth treating like a public endorsement: people who follow you will read it that way.

What TikTok analytics adds

TikTok's analytics, reached from your profile's creator tools, show per-video totals for views, likes, comments, shares and saves, and how people found the video: For You feed, your profile, following feed, search or sound. They also show watch time and how many viewers watched to the end.

The useful comparison is between videos. A video with a share rate well above your usual one is being passed around, which tends to bring viewers in through messages and other apps rather than the For You feed. TikTok engagement rate covers how to put shares and saves into one figure, and how the TikTok algorithm works explains why TikTok treats shares as a strong signal of interest.

Why shares matter more than their size suggests

A like costs nothing and stays on TikTok. A share takes a decision: the person thinks someone they know should see this. That's why shares are often a smaller number than likes, and why a video with a healthy share count reads to viewers as something worth passing on.

The share count is public, so it's part of what a viewer takes in at a glance, alongside views and likes. That visible number is what TikTok shares change. Be clear about the limit: they add to the count under the arrow; they don't send your video to real friends, and they don't replace a video people actually want to send. For the bookmark count, TikTok saves is the separate service, and the rest of the catalogue is on the TikTok services page. If your question was about views rather than shares, who viewed your TikTok covers the separate rules for profile views and video views.

Questions people ask about TikTok shares and saves