Instagram is making a host of sweeping changes in a bid to attract TikTok users as the future of that app hangs in the balance. TikTok temporarily shut down after the Supreme Court upheld a law that required ByteDance to divest its stake in the company by Jan. 19 or face a national ban.

TikTok may be back, but that hasn't prevented other Chinese competitors from gaining users. In the lead-up to a ban on TikTok — which kicked off Sunday

On the heels of TikTok's looming shutdown on January 19 over its ownership in the U.S. (unless the Supreme Court intervenes), it looks like another American users are flocking to a Chinese app called Xiaohongshu as people become less optimistic that TikTok can overturn U.

A new report claims that Instagram is offering content creators $50,000 or more to leave TikTok and post on Reels instead.

Instagram has announced Edits, a free video editing app that sounds a lot like CapCut. In a video posted to Threads on Sunday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri described Edits as a "full suite of creative tools,

Edits is only available for pre-order download from the Apple App Store. In time, it will become available in the Google Play Store.

With popular applications missing from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in the US thanks to a ban (which looks set to be repealed by President Trump once he is sworn in), Facebook and Instagram-owner Meta has swooped in to scoop up content creators left adrift.

With all the drama around TikTok and its fate in the US, Instagram has decided it's the perfect moment to unveil a brand-new app.

Intagrams's Adam Mosser announced that 'Edits,' a video editing app offering an alternative to Capcut has been introduced

Meta-owned Instagram announced on Sunday the launch of a new video editing app named Edits. The announcement comes after ByteDance’s video editing app, CapCut, was temporarily removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store as part of the TikTok ban, though services began restoring from 12 PM ET on Sunday.

Instagram has unveiled a new mobile app called Edits, designed to help creators easily shoot and edit videos on their smartphones.