TikTok is building a U.S.-specific app ahead of sale, report claims
Users in the U.S. are getting a TikTok app of their own.
A new report by The Information (via Reuters) says TikTok is working on a version of its app aimed solely for U.S. users. The company plans to launch it on September 5.
The popular Chinese social media app has been in trouble in the U.S. ever since the Biden administration banned it over concerns about security and potential data collection. The ban, which required TikTok's U.S. operations to be sold to American owners in order to continue operating in the U.S., was delayed several times. President Trump recently said that a buyer for TikTok has been secured.
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The Information's new report adds credence to that claim, as it says that the company's working on the new app ahead of the sale. The current deadline for ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, to sell the company's U.S. assets to an American company, is September 17.
According to the report, TikTok users in the U.S. will be able to continue using the current TikTok app until March of next year, but they will eventually have to download the U.S. version of the app to continue using the service.
None of this seems to have been finalized, as Trump himself said that China would have to approve of any TikTok deal, which could be more or less likely depending on the outcome of the two countries' tariff war.
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