TikTok is shutting down Notes, its photos-sharing app that rivaled Instagram. In a notification to users, the TikTok Notes staff 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 12 months, which lets customers share pictures alongside a caption, in addition to scroll by a “For You” feed with beneficial content material. The app was initially rolled out in restricted testing to Australia and Canada.
The choice to shut the app “was not made evenly,” based on TikTok’s message. It additionally means that customers check out Lemon8, one other social platform owned by TikTok mum or dad firm ByteDance.
Lemon8 lets customers share each pictures and movies, and has a concentrate on way of life subjects, like magnificence, meals, style, journey, and pets. Although TikTok started nudging users towards the app within the days main as much as its transient shutdown within the US, Lemon8 was additionally taken offline by the ban.
“We’re excited to deliver 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 mentioned to TechCrunch.