TikTok is shutting down Notes, its photos-sharing app that rivaled Instagram. In a notification to customers, the TikTok Notes workforce says the app will cease working beginning May eighth, and “all associated options will not be accessible.”
TikTok first rolled out Notes in April of final 12 months, which lets customers share images alongside a caption, in addition to scroll by way of a “For You” feed with really helpful content material. The app was initially rolled out in restricted testing to Australia and Canada.
The determination 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 dad or mum firm ByteDance.
Lemon8 lets customers share each images and movies, and has a concentrate on way of life matters, like magnificence, meals, trend, journey, and pets. Though TikTok began nudging customers 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 convey the suggestions from TikTok Notes to Lemon8 as we proceed constructing a devoted house for our neighborhood to share and expertise picture content material, designed to enhance and improve the TikTok expertise,” a TikTok spokesperson stated to TechCrunch.
