Delete your posts, deactivate, or delete the account?
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People arrive at this question already frustrated, and then pick the biggest hammer in reach. Usually it is the wrong one. You have three options, and they are not degrees of the same thing.
Clear the posts, keep the account
Your profile, your username and your followers stay, and the content goes. This is what most people want when they say they are done with TikTok, because what they want to escape is the archive, not the account. You do it post by post with the delete flow, or you hide the posts with Only you and keep the option of bringing them back.
The username matters more than it sounds. Once it is released you cannot get it back, and someone will take it.
Deactivate
TikTok documents account deactivation here. It is the pause button: the profile goes dark and you can come back. That suits “I need to not be on this app for two months”. It is not a cleanup. When you return, every post you were worried about returns with you, exactly as you left it. If your problem is one video from 2021, deactivating postpones the problem.
Delete the account
This is the only option that removes the account itself. Read TikTok’s own page carefully before you start, because there is a waiting period, and the username goes back into circulation afterwards. I would only do it if I never intend to be on TikTok again. If there is any chance you will post from this account in two years, clean it instead. A quiet profile with an empty grid costs nothing to keep.
What I would actually do
Back up first, always. Request your data and wait for the export, as covered in back up your TikTok before you delete anything.
Then clear the reposts, because it is fast and fully reversible. Then set a date cutoff and hide everything before it, per delete old TikToks from a specific year. Then look at what is left and decide, one by one, whether anything needs to be deleted.
After you review the posts that concern you, you may decide to keep the account. The problem may be limited to older videos.
FixMyTok handles the middle part, the part that does not scale: bulk make private, bulk delete and bulk clear reposts, on your own account, from your iPhone, iPad or Android phone, on exactly what you picked.