I have a question about the tiktok utilities and how the deleting happens. I saw text/copy on your site that says it deletes the videos at one time but I also see in a screenshot that there is a rate limit for each action and it says that’s in order to not get my account in trouble with tiktok.
My question is does the software actually delete all my stuff all at the same time as-in I press the button and poof everything is gone or is that just a mistake on wording and the app actually deletes everything one by one every few seconds?
The reason I am asking is because there are some videos from the begining of my account that I don’t want to get deleted. I have almost 100 videos but I want to NOT DELETE the first 10 or so and what I was planning on doing was just allowing the software to chew through my videos until it started getting near the end then I will manually stop the app so it doesn’t remove those videos I wanted to keep.
why not just find the date you want the app to stop deleting? what I mean is redact has a date filter so you can delete all videos or posts or whatever up to a specific date.
so iif your account was created on 1/15/2026 and from 1/15/2026 - 2/15/2026 you uploaded those 10 original videos you want to not have deleted, then you’d just set the date filter to delete all videos up until 2/16/2026.
Correct, it deletes your videos one at a time but it does 20 videos per minute which is still pretty fast. In 10 minutes you can remove 200 videos.
Just load it and let it run in the background. Anything beyond 20 per minute and Tiktok will rate-limit your account, or worse.
Not sure why there is no option for data import on tiktok like X and IG, I’m guessing tiktok doesn’t offer you the option to download your data file. If we had a data-importer we could delete content even faster thasn 20 per minute and not worry about the rate limits.
Your plan probably won’t work the way you’re thinking it would. Redact deletes one by one the rate-limit notice you saw is the real way it works. the “at once” wording is just marketing for the outcome. BUT the order isn’t guaranteed anyway, tiktok’s api returns videos in whatever order it wants which usually isn’t chronological. You could literally hit stop and find it deleted your oldest 10 first.
The right way is just use the date filter on the Redact Tiktok deleter. Open the tiktok job, set it to only delete videos posted AFTER [date just past your 10th video], and the first 10 are untouchable. Or use Preview Mode first it shows you the exact list of what’s about to be deleted before anything runs.
You could just also use review and delete mode where to manually pick and choose what goes and what stays by checking or unchecking little boxes next to each video. Sounds like you don’t have a crazy number to get rid of anyway, preview and delete may be your best option.
dude don’t do the manual stop thing. preview mode shows you the full list before it deletes anything. just exclude the 10 you want to keep, hit go, walk away. way less stressful than hovering over the stop button.
FYI I dont believe Redact as preview and delete mode for TikTok, but I could be wrong on that. The date filter approach is the safer play anyway because it builds the exclusion into the job itself. Stopping a running job manually can leave you mid-state in weird ways depending on what the API was doing at the time when you hit the cancel button.
