Full list of apps banned in the US along with TikTok

Last nighttime TikTok – owned by a steadfast successful China – was officially banned successful the US amid information fears.

Users who opened the app were shown a pop-up message alternatively of their accustomed watercourse of videos.

It said: ‘A law banning TikTok has been enacted successful the US. Unfortunately that means you can’t usage TikTok for now.’

‘We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that helium volition enactment with america connected a solution to reinstate TikTok erstwhile helium takes office. Please enactment tuned!’ it said.

Mr Trump, who volition beryllium inaugurated arsenic US president tomorrow, has contiguous said that helium volition hold the prohibition connected his archetypal time of office.

The Republican says helium would similar the US to person 50% ownership of the video platform, whose genitor institution is China-based tech steadfast ByteDance.

‘By doing this, we prevention TikTok, support it successful bully hands and let it to enactment up. Without U.S. approval, determination is nary TikTok,’ helium said.

US lawmakers had fixed ByteDance until contiguous to merchantability the societal media level successful its entirety oregon beryllium outlawed.

It was feared users’ information could beryllium handed implicit to Chinese quality agencies.

For now, TikTok remains off-line successful the US and truthful bash ByteDance’s different platforms, including video-editing app CapCut and photo- and video-sharing app Lemon8.

The nonaccomplishment of CapCut appears to person sparked peculiar dismay, with respective users posting their disappointment online.

Writing X, 1 idiosyncratic said, ‘Genuinely attraction little abt the tiktok prohibition since it ne'er stuck with maine but capcut….’ followed by a fig of crying emojis.

Another wrote: ‘Why’d they adjacent prohibition capcut fr [for real] I’m much huffy astir that than one americium tiktok. one was conscionable learning however to marque edits.’

A 3rd posted: ‘CapCut shutting down feels similar losing a instrumentality everyone secretly utilized but ne'er admitted to. Guess we’re backmost to Windows Movie Maker vibes now!’

Here we instrumentality a look astatine each ByteDance’s apps that are nary agelong disposable successful the states, successful summation to TikTok

TikTok Studio, TikTok Shop Seller Center and TikTok Lite

The apps enactment unneurotic with TikTok. TikTok Studio allows creators to negociate contented and cheque analytics, portion TikTok Shop Seller is aimed astatine TikTok ecommerce sellers to assistance them negociate their concern operations. TikTok Lite is simply a smaller and faster mentation of the archetypal app disposable successful selected countries.

CapCut

A escaped video-editing instrumentality for vertical videos that tin beryllium posted connected TikTok and different platforms. It’s peculiarly fashionable with amateur creators.

Lemon8

Lemon8 is comparatively new, having launched successful February 2023. It’s a photograph and video-based societal media app with similarities to RedNote, which is fashionable successful China.

Hypic

This photo-editing tool, launched successful 2022, uses AI to amended photograph prime oregon change images.

Gauth

A survey companion that uses AI to assistance students with homework, including step-by-step solutions to problems and ways to beryllium much productive portion studying.

Marvel snap

A fast-action paper game, Marvel Snap is published by Nuverse, which ByteDance owns. It was developed by Californian-based workplace Second Dinner, who posted connected X it had not expected the app to beryllium banned. It wrote: ‘Marvel Snap isn’t going anywhere. We’re actively moving connected getting the crippled up arsenic soon arsenic imaginable and volition update you erstwhile we person much to share.’

Lark

A workspace communications app akin to Slack that was primitively created for ByteDance’s ain interior messages among employees.

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