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 Well, that didn't last long. Less than a day after TikTok became temporarily unavailable in the U.S., the app is now functional again. In an in-app notice, TikTok says the app has been restored "as a result of President Trump's efforts."
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Instagram head Adam Mosseri took to Threads on Sunday with yet another announcement this weekend, the timing of which surely had nothing at all to do with TikTok and other ByteDance-owned apps (briefly) going dark: a new, free video-editing app called Edits is on the way. Instagram's Edits will cater to people who edit videos on their phone, and will offer "a full suite of creative tools." That includes higher-quality recordings, shareable drafts, trending audio, insights about your Reels' performance and an "inspiration tab," on top of the usual editing tools.
If all that reminds you of CapCut, TikTok's sister app for video editing, you're not alone. In response to the immediate comparisons, Mosseri called Edits "CapCut, but more for creators than casual video makers."
Edits isn't available yet, but you can pre-order i
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"I feel disconnected. I feel cut off from the world and my community," one influencer remarked when they were unable to access the app.
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The popular video app stopped working shortly before a federal law barring U.S. companies from hosting or distributing TikTok was set to take effect on Sunday.
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Less than 24 hours after the app went dark, TikTok says President-elect Donald Trump has given it the reassurance it needs to resume service in the US.
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It's been unclear in the leadup to the TikTok ban what the fate of parent company ByteDance's other apps would be, but now we know: they've gone dark in the US too. At the same time TikTok went offline this weekend, so did other apps ByteDance has developed or is affiliated with, including the popular video-editing tool CapCut, the social media platform Lemon8 and Marvel Snap. All are now displaying messages to US users that their services are unavailable. Ben Brode, Chief Development Officer for Marvel Snap developer Second Dinner, wrote on Threads that getting caught up in the ban "was a surprise to us" and that the team is working on getting it back online.
Second Dinner echoed this on X and in its in-app message to users, adding, "MARVEL SNAP isn't going anywhere." While Marvel Snap was created by the US-based developer, its publisher Nuverse Games is a ByteDance subsidiary. Other Nuverse games appear to be affected too.
CapCut and Lemon8 may be less surprising casualties, both having been developed by ByteDance, but given the law's focus on TikTok alone as its target, their shutdown is still sure to come as a shock to many users. CapCut is widely used for video editing, especially among social media creators. And many TikTok users looking for an alternative in light of the ban flocked to Lemon8; just a few days ago, Lemon8 was the
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Instagram is rolling out a bunch of changes this weekend that will conveniently make it look a lot more like TikTok, which could go dark in the US on Sunday now that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the law banning the app if parent company ByteDance doesn't sell it. Those changes include extending Reels to three minutes long and changing the longstanding square grid on your profile to a rectangular layout, as Adam Mosseri announced in an Instagram post and on his Story, respectively. Considering how some users have crafted a specific look for their pages around the square grid, the latter isn't likely to go over well with everyone.
Nor is the third thing: there's now a tab in your Reels feed that shows you videos your friends have liked or added Notes to, Mosseri shared on Threads. Which means, of course, that your friends can more easily see what you've been liking and interacting with, too. Didn't we already agree this was kind of invasive back when Instagram had — and eventually removed —
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Here's what we know, and don't, so far as TikTok's ban goes into effect and TKTK
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