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applications missing from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in the US thanks to a ban (which looks set to be repealed by President Trump once he is sworn in), Facebook and Instagram-owner Meta has swooped in to scoop up content creators left adrift.

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

Instagram announced on Sunday that a new video editing app will be hitting the app stores soon, hours after the ban on TikTok came into effect.

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.

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.

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

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,

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.

The clock is ticking toward TikTok's end with a possible ban set to go into effect Sunday. Here's where "TikTok refugees" are going.

TikTok told users the app will be "temporarily unavailable" as its Chinese parent company ByteDance pins its hopes on Donald Trump to save it.

App goes dark with ‘temporarily unavailable’ message but hopes Trump will save it - TikTok posts message saying the incoming president, who will be sworn in on Monday, could help the app get up and ru