Caption cleanup for automatic posts
Strips TikTok-only hashtags and leftovers like Replying to @handle from captions EverySqueeze writes for you.
Settings → Accounts & platforms → Facebook has Caption for automatic posts, with two choices: Keep my TikTok caption exactly or Clean it up. It applies to captions automatic posting writes for both Facebook and Instagram from your TikTok caption — a caption you type yourself is never changed. Either way, a Facebook post that carries an Amazon link or your own affiliate link ends with #ad unless the caption already says #ad or similar (the Add #ad to Facebook posts with an Amazon link switch, under the Facebook link setting, turns that off).
What "Clean it up" removes
A leading Replying to @handle line, and hashtags that only make sense on TikTok: the curated list includes tags like #tiktokshop, #fyp, #foryou and #tiktokmademebuyit, plus any tag ending in tok (for example #cleantok or #booktok), and TikTok Shop's campaign tags in every season (for example #DiscoverYourGift, #FallDealsForYou, #DealsForYouDays and #CreatorSearchInsights). Your own words and other hashtags, brand tags included, stay untouched.
Why it matters
TikTok leftovers on a Facebook or Instagram post read as an obvious repost. If cleanup leaves nothing behind, EverySqueeze falls back to the video's title, then its TikTok Shop product name, instead of posting an empty caption.
When TikTok shows no caption
Now and then TikTok's answer for a video comes back with no caption even though the video has one. Before an automatic Facebook or Instagram post goes out, EverySqueeze asks TikTok again: first through the optional TikTok permission in Settings → Accounts and platforms → TikTok sources when you have turned it on, then, when your library shows text for the video, through its usual lookup, a few times at most. If the caption still can't be read, the post uses the video's title instead. The title in your library is the start of your caption, so it is shortened to the end of a sentence (or a whole word, marked with …), never cut mid-word, and the Schedule history line for that post says the caption was empty on TikTok and the title was used. To post your full caption instead, edit the post's caption in the Schedule before it goes out.
This is separate from the caption template's tokens — cleanup runs on your caption text first, before the template or the Amazon link is added.