TikTok ban and Instagram announces Edits

TikTok ban and Instagram announces Edits As TikTok scrambled to restore service in the U.S. on Sunday. Instagram announced a new video editing software that it hopes will be released in February.

Instagram Head Adam Mosseri announced on Sunday − the same day TikTok was legally banned in the U.S. − that Instagram, owed by Meta, will soon offer a new video editing software called Edits.

Mosseri announced Edits the same day that CapCut, a ByteDance-owned mobile video editing software, was banned alongside TikTok in the U.S. Sunday.

“Now, a lot is going on in the world right now and no matter what happens, we think it’s our job to create the most compelling creative tools for those of you who make videos for not just Instagram but for platforms out there, as we can,” Mosseri said in his announcement video.

TikTok ban and Instagram announces Edits

As of Sunday, Edits is only available for free pre-order download from the Apple App Store, but Mosseri said it will eventually become available for download in the Google Play Store.

Edits is owned by Instagram, a subsidiary of Meta, and CapCut is owned by ByteDance. As of Sunday afternoon, CapCut was unavailable in the U.S.