TikTok Duet and Stitch: how to make them and who can use yours

Both let you build on someone else's video. The format is the difference:

Sources: TikTok Support: Duets, checked 14 October 2026; TikTok Support: Stitch, checked 14 October 2026

If Duet doesn't appear, the creator has turned it off for that video.

1. In the TikTok app, tap the Share button on the side of the video.
2. Tap Duet at the bottom. You may need to swipe to find it.
3. Add effects or filters, or use the other camera tools.
4. Tap Record to start and stop, then tap the Continue tick.
5. Add a filter, voice effect, text, stickers or effects.
6. Tap Next to add a description, hashtags and privacy settings.
7. Tap Post, or Drafts to save it.

Source: TikTok Support: Duets, checked 14 October 2026

TikTok's advanced editing tools work on Duets and Stitches too.

1. In the TikTok app, tap the Share button on the side of the video.
2. Tap Stitch, choose the part of the video you want, and tap Next.
3. Select a maximum length for your video.
4. Tap Record to make your part, then the Continue tick.
5. Add a filter, voice effect, text, stickers or effects.
6. Tap Next to add a description, hashtags and privacy settings.
7. Tap Post, or Drafts to save it.

Sources: TikTok Support: Stitch, checked 14 October 2026; TikTok Support: Editing TikTok videos and photos, checked 14 October 2026

One setting, Reuse of content, covers both. TikTok notes that turning it off also stops people creating stickers from your posts or adding them to their Story. To set it for your whole account:

1. In the TikTok app, tap Profile at the bottom.
2. Tap the Menu button (three lines), then Settings and privacy.
3. Tap Privacy, then Reuse of content.
4. Tap Allow reuse of content from and choose Everyone or Friends.

• For one new video: on the Post screen, tap More options and switch Allow reuse of content on or off.
• For a video already posted: tap More options (the three dots), then Privacy settings, and switch Allow reuse of content.

Sources: TikTok Support: Duet privacy settings, checked 14 October 2026; TikTok Support: Stitch privacy settings, checked 14 October 2026

Go to Settings and privacy, Privacy, Reuse of content, then Reuse of content history. Pick the video, tap More options and tap Remove all posts.

Read the warning first: TikTok says this permanently removes your original video as well as every Duet and Stitch made with it. Download your original before you do it. If more than 10 posts are involved, you may have to confirm the account is yours.

Changing your settings later doesn't remove what already exists. TikTok says Stitches made before you limited access stay on TikTok.

Sources: TikTok Support: Duet privacy settings, checked 14 October 2026; TikTok Support: Stitch, checked 14 October 2026

If you post as a business, TikTok's Business Help Center says the Commercial Music Library applies to organic content including Duets and Stitches, so check the music in the original before you build on it.

• Stitch a question someone asked in a video and answer it.
• Duet a customer's video of your product, with their permission, to say thank you or show a tip.
• Stitch a common myth in your trade and correct it.
• Duet a tutorial and follow along with your own product.
• Leave Allow reuse of content on for your own how-to videos, so customers can respond to them.

Source: TikTok Business Help Center: Commercial Music Library, checked 14 October 2026

Under-18s have their own settings. TikTok points teens to its privacy and safety settings page for how Duet and Stitch work for them.

• Report the video if it breaks TikTok's Community Guidelines.
• If it violates your privacy rights, use TikTok's online privacy report form.
• Limit future reuse to Friends, or turn Allow reuse of content off for that video.
• As a last resort, remove all Duets and Stitches of the video, knowing your original goes too.

Sources: TikTok Support: Duets, checked 14 October 2026; TikTok Support: Stitch, checked 14 October 2026; TikTok Support: Duet privacy settings, checked 14 October 2026

Zolyp, which publishes this guide, is an AI social media manager: it plans, writes, designs and schedules posts for Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Business, X, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, and Threads, and you approve the week before anything goes out. Duets and Stitches are made inside the TikTok app, so plan those there. Zolyp covers the rest of the TikTok calendar: the original videos and photo posts that give people something to Duet and Stitch.