TikTok is shutting down Notes, its photos-sharing app that rivaled Instagram. In a notification to customers, the TikTok Notes crew says the app will cease working beginning Might eighth, and “all associated options will now not be out there.”
TikTok first rolled out Notes in April of final yr, which lets customers share photographs alongside a caption, in addition to scroll via a “For You” feed with advisable content material. The app was initially rolled out in restricted testing to Australia and Canada.
The choice to shut the app “was not made frivolously,” based on TikTok’s message. It additionally means that customers check out Lemon8, one other social platform owned by TikTok father or mother firm ByteDance.
Lemon8 lets customers share each photographs and movies, and has a give attention to life-style subjects, like magnificence, meals, style, journey, and pets. Although TikTok began nudging customers towards the app within the days main as much as its temporary shutdown within the US, Lemon8 was additionally taken offline by the ban.
“We’re excited to carry the suggestions from TikTok Notes to Lemon8 as we proceed constructing a devoted area for our neighborhood to share and expertise photograph content material, designed to enrich and improve the TikTok expertise,” a TikTok spokesperson stated to TechCrunch.
