Users who have the TikTok app on their phone will still be able to access it after Jan. 19. However, because the ban would prevent Apple and Google from providing the app with necessary updates, TikTok would quickly break down and become unusable, leading Americans to look for an alternative app.

Searches were shown to be highest in Hawaii, California, New York, Oregon and Massachusetts, according to data from Google Trends.

ByteDance has revealed what will happen to the TikTok app in the United States once the shutdown comes into place on Sunday, January 19.

TikTok may be banned in the U.S. over the weekend, but Americans are heading to another Chinese-owned video platform: RedNote.

American TikTok users have flocked to the RedNote app as a TikTok ban looms. Now they're helping Chinese users with their English homework.

TikTok users in the US are migrating to a Chinese app called RedNote with the threat of a ban just days away. The move by users who call themselves "TikTok refugees" has made RedNote the most downloaded app on Apple's US App Store on Monday.

If that’s the funniest thing, the rise of RedNote isn’t far behind. As you probably already know, Congress passed a bill seeking to ban TikTok from the app store or force the company to sell to a U.S.