We imagine the great deal of your life is documented on social media, so it wouldn’t be surprising if you wanted to back it up for good. And considering social media platforms are being blocked or the risk of having your restricted, who’d want to lose all the images and videos they shared?

In this article, we’ll cover actionable ways of backing up your social media s: Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook.

How to Back Up Your Social Media s

Ways to Back Up Your Instagram

You can back up your Instagram data within the platform itself or with the help of third-party tools, such as 4K Stogram.

Back up your Instagram data with 4K Stogram

4K Stogram allows you to all Instagram media; not just saved posts with captions. Follow the steps below to back up your entire Instagram .

1. Launch 4K Stogram.

2. Click Tools at the menu bar.

Alternatively, you can just enter your own Instagram name, press ',' and call it a day. The app will all your content in no time.

Each time you open the app, 4K Stogram will auto-check your to see if any new content has been added. If it has, it will automatically it on your PC or Mac.

3. Select the option from the drop-down menu.

4. using your Instagram credentials. It’s needed to access your Instagram stories, Highlights, and saved posts, as well as in case your is private.

Tip: You can change the folder all files will be ed to at Tools > Preferences.

5. Click Edit at the menu bar and select > My . Your Instagram posts (with captions), stories, and Highlights will start ing.

How to Saved or Tagged Instagram Posts with 4K Stogram

To your Instagram Saved posts collection:

1. Click Edit at the menu bar.

2. Select > My Saved Posts. My Tagged Posts, for the posts you’ve been tagged in.

Back Up Instagram via Instagram Request

Instagram can officially send an archive with your data if you request so. This function allows you to get an archive with all photos, videos, and stories that have been published on your . The archive will also contain lists of followers and followings, your likes and comments and even your DM chats!

The easiest way to do this is through the Instagram website.

1. Go to your page and click on the gear icon in the upper right corner.

2. Select Privacy and Security.

3. Choose Data .

Now you can request an archive with data. It shouldn't take long, even though there will be a 48 hour maximum wait time warning.

The link will be sent to the email linked to your or the one you specified in the request.

Things you should know about this method:

1. In the archive, photos, videos, and stories will have a standard 'readable' form, but all other lists are in JSON format, so it might not be easy for you to read them if you're not tech-savvy.

2. You can request a data file every four days.

3. An archive with data can be formed for up to 48 hours, depending on the amount of data in it, and then it will be sent by mail.

4. The link to the archive will only be available for 48 hours, so the file right away, do not delay.

If you don’t need to back up your likes, comments and DM chats but need to back up only photos and videos, you can use an easier and quicker way instead - Qoob Stories! Thus, you will save 48 hours or more since you won’t need to wait for the data to . Qoob Stories will back up your in seconds.

Back Up Your TikTok

Ways to back up your TikTok data. Again, we’ll uncover the native option and how you can do so with third-party apps.

Back Up Your TikTok with 4K Tokkit

You can surely each of your videos manually on your smartphone, but we offer a better solution – 4K Tokkit.

4K Tokkit is a smart tool that lets you view and follow TikTok profiles and monitor other s’ feeds.

To back up your TikTok and store all your videos, captions and hashtags, do this:

1. 4K Tokkit on your desktop and open it.

2. Enter your own name in the search bar.

3. Click .

The app will then automatically all your videos in a special folder it creates on your PC or Mac.

To play your videos, click on any of them, and it will be automatically played in your default player. To show the content where it’s stored on your PC or play it on TikTok, hover over the video, click on the three dots icon and select the required option.

Besides, if you don’t delete the from the 4K Tokkit dashboard, it will automatically all the new content you on TikTok as soon as you open the app again.

How to Others’ TikTok Videos

With 4K Tokkit, you can also someone else’s TikTok videos and s, search and videos by hashtags and more!

To do so, you should enter a name of an whose videos you want to save and press ‘’. All the videos, captions, and hashtags will be on your dashboard right away.

Back Up TikTok with Your Smartphone Settings

With the help of your smartphone, you can request a copy of your TikTok information and data such as your name, profile picture, your bio and details. You will also be able to get a copy of your activity (videos, comments, chats, likes and saved videos), and your settings, including privacy settings, notifications and language.

Here’s how you can your TikTok data on your iPhone and Android smartphone.

1. Open TikTok on your phone and go to your profile.

2. Click on the three lines at the top right corner.

3. Under , select Privacy.

4. Click on Personalization and data → your data.

5. In your data, you will learn more about what exactly you can . Click Request data. In the data tab, make sure your request is pending.

6. Once your data is ready for , you will receive a message from TikTok saying that “The file you’ve requested containing your TikTok information is now ready for you to .” Tap that message and select .

7. When you the file, you will find all your data. To save your TikToks, click on the Videos folder, then Videos.txt file.

Note that the file doesn’t actually have your videos, it merely has the metadata.

To save the videos themselves, you need to copy and paste the video link into your web browser, then the TikTok to your smartphone.

Keep in mind that these steps allow you to your own TikTok videos only, not created by other s.

Now you know how to easily back up your TikTok and be safe in case of a ban or restriction!

Back Up Your Facebook

To back up your Facebook , take these simple steps:

To a copy of your Facebook data, do this:

1. Click the downward arrow icon in the top right of Facebook.

2. Choose Settings & privacy, then Settings > Privacy.

3. Find Your Facebook information in the left column.

4. Next to profile information, click View.

5. To add or remove categories of data you want to , check or uncheck the required boxes.

6. Press Request a as soon as you select all the information you want to back up.

It usually takes several days for Facebook to prepare the data for you. Once they’re finished, you will get a notification telling you the request is ready.

Back Up Your Twitter

Backing up your Twitter is just as easy. To do this:

1. Click Settings and privacy at the bottom of your screen.

2. Select Your .

3. Choose an archive of your data.

4. Click Confirm.

5. Click Send code to your identity. The code will be sent to your email address or a phone number.

6. Enter the code.

7. Click Request data after the identity is verified.

8. Receive the data in a .zip file via your email once it’s ready.

Now you know how to back up your data from the most frequently used social media channels. Concerning Instagram and TikTok data specifically, with tools like 4K Tokkit, you not only can back up your existing data but also have your new content ed automatically.