Social networks are flooded with short watermarked videos from TikTok. The app has become popular not only among teenagers, but more and more adults are also advertising their businesses, showing clever tricks, and just having fun. It’s all thanks to the effects, music, and filters available in TikTok.
Bloggers and other users can transfer videos from TikTok to Instagram and post already prepared content so they don’t have to shoot the same videos twice. So, here is how to share a TikTok video on Instagram.
Why do you need to upload videos from TikTok to Instagram
TickTock is growing in popularity. It’s a handy tool for creating short videos of different content. You can shoot not only dances and simple jokes. Some users make a short video to fix a room, create a complicated meal, or make a workout program. Such videos gain views, people share them and save them to repeat.
The content created can be published not only on this platform but also on other platforms, such as Instagram. And in Instagram, it will be easier, because applications can be linked. The advantages of linking accounts for the blogger and the business are obvious. Audiences will be able to flow from one app to another and back again, watch content in TikTok, click through, and read posts on Instagram. Watch Instagram posts and click through to TikTok videos.
To repost your own video from TikTok, you need to be registered and authorized in both TikTok and Instagram. Otherwise, you won’t be able to repost. If you plan to repost someone else’s video, you don’t need to be registered in TikTok.
How to link TikTok and Instagram accounts
To get your audience to subscribe to you on TikTok and Instagram, it’s worth linking your accounts and verifying your identity. In addition, linked accounts make it easy to repost videos and upload them to your device. So, if you want to do this, you have to follow these steps:
- First of all, open the TikTok app on your smartphone.
- Sign in to your account and go to your profile.
- Tap on the “Edit Profile” option.
- There is a line at the bottom of the page for linking to Instagram.
- Tapping on it will open the Instagram authorization page.
- Enter your Instagram username and password.
- The social network will ask if you allow access to the account, you must give permission.
- Finally, the Instagram button appears in the TikTok profile, and the profile name appears in the TikTok settings in front of the “Instagram” line.
How to share a TikTok to an Instagram
If you want to share a TikTok to an Instagram, you have to follow these steps:
- Open the TikTok app on your smartphone.
- Navigate to the video you want to share to an Instagram.
- Then, tap on the “Share” button at the right side of the screen.
- After that, you can choose one of the options to share your video to Instagram Stories or just post it as usual on Instagram.
- Once you tap on the option you selected, you will be redirected to the Instagram app.
Finally, you can post this video as an Instagram Story or simple publication.