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How to Find a TikTok Video You Lost After Refreshing

Published March 14, 2025

TikTok has billions of videos, with millions of videos uploaded every day. While scrolling your For You feed, you will undoubtedly come across lots of videos you enjoy. When you get to a video you like, you may refresh the For You page by accident, leading you to lose the video. You may think you lost it but thankfully you can get back to it.

Users often want to know how to find a TikTok video you lost after refreshing the feed. Using the search function is often a fruitless endeavor considering how many videos there are. This is especially true if a video you are looking for is on a trending topic. The good news is that you can get back to a video you were watching even if you refresh your For You fee.

How to Find a TikTok Video You Lost After Refreshing

There is an easy way to find TikTok videos you were watching that you lost after refreshing your feed. Do the following:

  1. Go to the Discovery tab within TikTok
  2. Tap on the Search bar
  3. Try to describe the video you are looking for with any potential keywords of descriptors
  4. Tap on Search
  5. Tap on the two lines beside the search field to open the search filter
  6. Under Activity, select the “Watched videos, Within last 7 days” filter

After you enable this search filter, you will only be shown videos you watched. This can significantly narrow down your hunt for the TikTok videos you watch and lose after accidentally refreshing your feed.

While this is not the perfect solution, it will significantly increase your chances of finding a video you want to rewatch.

Conclusion

Now that you know how to find a TikTok video you lost after refreshing, you will no longer be stressing about losing a video you were watching. Thanks to the search filters TikTok offers, you can simply filter your most recently watched videos and get back to enjoying a previously-watched video.

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Jessica is a consultant, researcher, and the editor-in-chief of the Buzzoid blog, who specializes in social media, marketing, and digital strategy. She is a graduate of Antioch College and earned her MBA at Boston College’s Carroll Graduate School of Management, specializing in STEM Management.

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