TikTok is the instant social network, like instant coffee; one made by and for the moment in which, as many of its users recognize, it is easy to get lost by endlessly sliding your finger, and that is that the mixture of the format and an algorithm that will do everything possible to catch you the sooner the better, is everything a hooking experience.
Thus, while TikTok is made, much more than other platforms of its kind, to put your mind blank and get carried away by the most spurious entertainment, like everything in this life, there are exceptions and interesting content that is easy to appear and disappear. from view without giving you a chance to save or share it.
TikTok improved these aspects with the likes and the bookmarks, but a history option for the videos seen was still missing , to at least try to recover some video that you saw and that for whatever reason -you did not save it, you closed the app, or you hit the wrong button and the carousel restarted- you lost sight of it.
Well, that option, that of being able to access the history of videos watched, arrived recently, but in a not at all intuitive way. Let’s see how it’s done.
How to check your viewing history on TikTok
It would be expected that a type of application like this, for videos after all, would have a specific section to access to see the viewing history, but this is not the case. In other words, the section exists, but it is hidden, strange as it may seem. You have to look for it, and never better said:
- Click on the magnifying glass to perform a search and put an asterisk(*).
- When the results are displayed, you will see a lossless option appear: « See your viewing history«.
- Before accessing, you can refine your search by applying various filters based on your activity or publication date. In any case, the history is displayed in chronological order.
- Once in your history, you can choose to disable or delete it, if you do not want to use this function, although as indicated in the settings, only videos viewed on the device are included.
And that’s it. Now you know how to check your history of videos watched on TikTok, if you didn’t already know. Now they just need to refine the function a bit to make it more accessible, because as it stands it leaves a bit to be desired.