In this post, I will provide you with the best answer to the question, of how to change the Thumbnail on TikTok videos. Before we move to the main subject, let us know what a Thumbnail is.
Thumbnail is the still image that represents a video when you are viewing it from your Gallery. This definition is what we think suits our subject here.
Whenever you open the profile of a TikTok user on the app, you may see a frame from the video. Normally TikTok picks the first frame of the video to represent the video.
You may ask why not display the full-length video? Representing the videos with thumbnails makes saves you some data and phone resources. Thumbnails are very lightweight as compared to the video and being on someone’s profile doesn’t mean you can watch all the videos there at the same time, this may distract you. This makes it better to choose something lighter to represent the video to save you internet data and phone resources like memory, GPU, and others.
How to Change the Thumbnail on TikTok Videos
It is very easy to choose your own thumbnail from the frames in the video and add some texts when uploading your videos for the first time but not possible to change the thumbnail of already uploaded videos, unlike on YouTube where can change your Thumbnail all the time.
Also, remember you can only use a frame in your video as your thumbnail and you can not have a separate thumbnail and upload as you do on YouTube.
How to Change the Thumbnail when Uploading videos on TikTok
TikTok mostly uses the first frame from the video you are using, but if you prefer a different frame from the video which will be more catchy and catch the attention of many then follow these simple steps.
- Open your TikTok app as usual.
- Tap on the + icon. which says post.
- Either you record or upload your video.
- Tap on Next.
- Make the necessary timing and tap on Next at the top right corner.
- Choose your sound, effects, Text, and Stickers if you want to, and tap on Next again.
- At this stage, you will be asked to describe your video and tag some friends, hashtags, and videos and set your preferred permission. At the top right corner, you will see Select cover under the chosen cover. Tap on the Select Cover.
- You will be able to select your preferred frame and add some text to it. Check the image below to see the page I am talking about.
How to Change the Thumbnail Already Uploaded videos on TikTok
In a short answer, this is not possible for now. We are all waiting for TikTok to implement this feature that will allow us to change the thumbnails of our already uploaded videos.
However, the only way you can do that is to reupload the video again and chose the best thumbnail this time.
Conclusion
Thank you for reading this article, we hope this article has been able to clear your doubts and able to change the cover art or thumbnails of your TikTok videos.
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