TikTok is Developing New App for the United States

This update comes ahead of TikTok’s required sale of its US operations

ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, is reportedly developing a new version of the popular video streaming app specifically for the US market. The project coincides with an impending sale of TikTok’s US operations stemming from Former President Biden’s “divest-or-ban" law.

TikTok in the US:

The new app is expected to go live on September 5, 2025.
The current app is set to be active until March 2026, but that timeline is not guaranteed.
No information on the integration of accounts from one app to the other has been shared.

Divest-or-ban:

Former President Biden signed the law in April 2024, requiring ByteDance to sell its US TikTok operations to non-Chinese owners.
The Supreme Court upheld the law in January 2025.
President Trump has extended the deadline of the sale three times. The most recent extension will last until September 17, 2025.
President Trump has suggested a buyer for TikTok US has been found.

TikTok in the US:

The new app is expected to go live on September 5, 2025.
The current app is set to be active until March 2026, but that timeline is not guaranteed.
No information on the integration of accounts from one app to the other has been shared.

Divest-or-ban:

Former President Biden signed the law in April 2024, requiring ByteDance to sell its US TikTok operations to non-Chinese owners.
The Supreme Court upheld the law in January 2025.
President Trump has extended the deadline of the sale three times. The most recent extension will last until September 17, 2025.
President Trump has suggested a buyer for TikTok US has been found.

TikTok in the US:

The new app is expected to go live on September 5, 2025.
The current app is set to be active until March 2026, but that timeline is not guaranteed.
No information on the integration of accounts from one app to the other has been shared.

Divest-or-ban:

Former President Biden signed the law in April 2024, requiring ByteDance to sell its US TikTok operations to non-Chinese owners.
The Supreme Court upheld the law in January 2025.
President Trump has extended the deadline of the sale three times. The most recent extension will last until September 17, 2025.
President Trump has suggested a buyer for TikTok US has been found.

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- This article was written with information sourced from Reuters, which cited unnamed sources from a report first published in The Information.

- We covered it because of TikTok’s influence on the greater music industry.

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