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Do you need to remove all unavoidable videos from your favorites section on TikTok?
TikTok is a social media platform that allows users to create content, share content, and watch other people’s content, among other things on the side.
It has grown considerably in a couple of years making it one of the most used social media apps around the world.
TikTok allows users to save videos to their favorites, these are usually videos they love and enjoy, and wish to watch some other time, it makes it easy to find and view these videos again later on.
There is a reason or two why you might be getting the “Unavailable” message on a video you saved to your favorites, could either be the video was deleted by the uploaded, or there is a bug in your TikTok app, or your TikTok app could be out of date.
Either way this guide would show you a step-by-step process on “How to remove all unavoidable videos from TikTok favorites”.
How To Remove All Unavailable Videos From TikTok Favorites?
TikTok does not have a direct option to remove all unavoidable videos from your favorites section all at once, but there are steps you can take to remove them one after the other, here are the steps:
- First, open the TikTok app on your mobile device and log into your TikTok account.
- Your “TikTok Profile” icon is located at the bottom right corner of the screen, click on it.
- Your favorites tab is represented by a bookmark icon, click on it.
- This will take you to your favorites page where your favorites videos that you saved are displayed in a grid format.
- Among your saved videos in favorites, you will find the unavailable videos that you saved.
- To remove an unavailable video from your favorite videos, tap on the video which will display it fully on your screen.
- Then the message “Video Unavailable” will be written on your screen, at the right-hand side of the screen you will find the share icon along with the heart icon in red among other icons.
- The heart icon is red to indicate that you saved the video to your favorites.
- Tap on the heart icon to remove the video from favorites, when you tap on the heart icon in red, it turns white which indicates that you have removed the video from favorites.
- Go back to the “Favorites” section by clicking the back arrow to show your list of favorite videos which are displayed in grid format.
Follow the process to remove all unavailable videos from your favorites section on TikTok.
This process can take a while to finish if you have a lot of unavailable videos in your favorites section, also it is safer to check all videos present in your favorites section just in case some of these videos are also unavailable.
Also before these unavailable videos build up, it is best to check your favorites from time to time and remove the unavailable videos so as to prevent them from piling up.
This way you will save yourself the trouble of having to remove many unavailable videos one at a time which can be very time consuming if they pile up.
Why Videos Become Unavailable On TikTok?
There are a couple of reasons why videos in your favorites section might become unavailable, some of these reasons are:
- Video getting banned, this would happen when the video violates rules and regulations on TikTok.
- The creator of the video deleted the video for one reason or the other.
- Users of TikTok can also make their videos private, and when this happens the video can show up as “Unavailable” in your favorites.
- Bug in your TikTok app, this is not a common reason but it happens. You can uninstall and reinstall the TikTok app to fix this issue.
- Outdated TikTok app can also cause the unavailable video problem, update the app to fix it. Constantly check for the app update on Google play store for Android and App store for IOS devices.
- A bad internet connection can also cause the “Unavailable” video issue, check your internet connection and make sure your internet is well connected.
- TikTok servers being down can also cause videos to be unavailable, if this happens you would have to wait for TikTok to fix the problem from their own end.
Conclusion
Adding videos to your favorites on TikTok is a feature that really helps users to save videos they love and wish to watch again later on.
It becomes a problem when some of these videos brings up the video “Unavailable” message.
Having to remove these videos when they pile up can be tiring some times, so it is best to review your favorites from time to time and remove any unwanted or unavailable video you find to keep them from piling up.
I hope the step-by-step process explained in this guide has been able to help you with “How to remove all unavailable videos from TikTok favorites”.
Brianna is based in Minnesota in the US at the moment, and has been writing since 2017. She is currently a 3rd Year med student at the time of writing this.
