How to do TikTok’s photo swipe trend

❘ Updated: 2024-03-12T09:52:17

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TikTok’s photo swipe feature has quickly become one of the most popular editing tools on the app, with users constantly coming up with new trends to use it for. Here’s how to make a swipe slideshow to join these trends.

Short-form video platform TikTok is the best place to go to find the latest trends and challenges online, as creators are constantly coming up with new ways to entertain their followers.

TikTok has several different editing tools that people can use to keep their videos interesting, and these tools often form the basis of popular trends.

The latest craze to do the rounds on the app is the ‘photo swipe’ trend, which has users showing off a series of images in a slideshow-style format, usually with a song in the background.

Here’s how to try it for yourself.

How to make a swipe slideshow on TikTok

Recreating this trend is simple as long as your device and app are up to date. If you have access to the feature, here’s how to do the photo swipe trend:

Open TikTok.
Click on the plus button to open the camera.
In the bottom right corner click on ‘Uploads.’
Select the images you want in your slideshow, then click ‘Next.’
Click ‘Switch to photo mode’ if it’s not on photo mode already.
Select the sound bar from the top of the screen to pick a background song.
Click the text button in the top right corner to type out song lyrics or captions for each photo.
Tap ‘Next’ and post as you normally would.

People are using this trend to show all kinds of different pictures, whether that’s snaps from their lives or popular memes.

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