How to protect your TikTok content if Chinese-owned app is banned in US trends now

TikTok users are in a panic now that President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill demanding that the social video app's Chinese owners sell it off within nine months.

The measure — which passed the US House of Representatives with broad bipartisan support, 360 to 58 — has left TikTok's owner, ByteDance, convinced that a 'total ban of TikTok in the US ' will soon be the 'predetermined' outcome.

ByteDance's refusal now leaves 150 million Americans worried about the fate of their videos and followers.

But there are ways TikTokers can secure their content even if the app is pulled from the US market, such as downloading your account data stored by the app.

The House China Select Committee has said that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials through ByteDance are using TikTok to spy on its U.S. users' locations and dictate its algorithm to conduct influence campaigns, making it a national security threat.

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who introduced the measure, said TikTok is 'a spy balloon in Americans' phones' meant to 'surveil and exploit America's personal information.'

While the government has moved to ban TikTok, Americans are coming together to fight the law - as many rely on the app as their sole income.

Gavin Dees, a TikToker with over one million followers but would not disclose how much money he makes, told DailyMail.com last year: 'Fighting for TikTok is not fighting for an app. It's fighting for the right to speak.

'It's fighting for even people I may not fully believe the same way. I believe in your right to believe that and to speak about that so. And TikTok allows for that in a way we've never seen.'

For those like Dees the ban could mean all of their work will be lost, but Jess Hunichen, co-founder of the global influencer talent management agency Shine Talent Group, is to make sure that all of your TikTok content has been backed up, so that nothing is lost if the US institutes a ban. 

TikTok influencers, content creators, and even more casual users, Hunichen told Newsweek, are also worried too about losing the community of followers they have worked hard to create on the app.

Fortunately, the talent agent had tips for both issues. 

How to Back Up Your TikTok Content

On a video by video basis, it is easy to download your own TikTok video posts from either an iPhone and Android:

First, open TikTok and scroll to the

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