How to sort TikTok favorites by oldest first
Can you sort TikTok favorites by oldest first?
Not inside the TikTok app — it ships no sorting, reversing or filtering for Favorites. To get oldest-first order you export your own data from TikTok (Settings and privacy → Account → Download your data, JSON) and open the file in ScrollBack, which reads the saved-on date of each video and lists them in ascending order. You keep full access to the same videos, just in the opposite order.
Try it now — 5 videos freeStep by step
- Open your TikTok account settingsIn the TikTok app, tap Profile, then the ☰ menu at the top right, then Settings and privacy.
- Go to Account → Download your dataTap Account, then Download your data. This is TikTok's official data export — it is free and available to every account.
- Choose the JSON format and include Likes & FavoritesUnder Select data, keep Likes & Favorites (or All data) ticked, then under File format pick JSON rather than TXT. JSON is the one that carries the exact date you saved each video.
- Request the file and download itTap Request data, then open the Download data tab. Small exports are often ready in seconds; larger ones can take a few hours. Tap Download and save the ZIP to your phone or computer.
- Import the ZIP into ScrollBackOpen scroll-back.com in your browser, drop the ZIP straight in — no unzipping needed. It is read on your own device and your saved videos appear as a grid, oldest first.
Saved vs Favorites vs Liked — which one are you sorting?
- Saved / bookmarks: the flag icon on a video. Lives under Profile → the bookmark tab.
- Favorites: TikTok's collections feature, grouped into folders you name yourself.
- Liked: the heart. Public or private depending on your settings.
None of the three can be sorted in-app, and all three are included in the JSON data export as long as you leave 'Likes & Favorites' ticked when you request it. ScrollBack reads them from the same file, so you can flip whichever list you care about.
What 'oldest first' really means here
Sorting is done on the date you saved the video, not the date the video was posted. That is almost always what you want: you are trying to retrace your own history — what you were bookmarking two summers ago — rather than rank videos by their upload date.
Because the export stores that save timestamp to the second, the ordering is exact, including several videos saved in the same minute.
Sorting, then narrowing
Once the list is oldest-first, the second half of the job is narrowing it. ScrollBack adds a month filter on top of the sort, so instead of scanning three years of saves you can open, say, only March 2023 and look at the twenty videos from that month.
The sort direction is a toggle too — flip back to newest-first at any time without re-importing anything.
Does this change anything on your TikTok account?
No. The export is a read-only copy of your own data. Nothing is posted, unsaved, unliked or reordered on TikTok itself, and you never enter your TikTok password anywhere outside the official app.
Frequently asked questions
Can I sort by the video's upload date instead?
The export's reliable timestamp is the date you saved the video, so that is what the sort uses. In practice it matches the order you discovered the videos, which is what most people are looking for.
Does it work for a Favorites collection with folders?
Yes — the export includes favorited videos, and ScrollBack lays them out in one oldest-first grid across the whole history.
Is sorting free?
Importing and sorting is free, and the first 5 video views cost nothing. Unlimited playback is $29.99 once for life, or $4.99 a week.
Do it in two minutes
ScrollBack reads your TikTok export in your browser — nothing is uploaded — and shows every video you saved, oldest-first.
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