While TikTok and Instagram had a very completely different audience within the preliminary days of their life, these apps have been at loggerheads for the previous a number of years — particularly after Instagram “encroached” into TikTok’s area of brief movies with Instagram Reels. While there isn’t any denying that Reels has been a significant success, the very fact stays that Instagram began as a photo-sharing platform. With Notes, it appears TikTok needs to present Instagram (and Meta) a style of its personal drugs by making its presence felt within the nonetheless standard photo-sharing area.

Thanks to the screenshots uploaded by TikTok, we have now a good thought of what TikTok Notes UI seems to be like. One main characteristic that Notes affords over Instagram is the flexibility to create headlines for pictures. 

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The grid structure of the images additionally seems to be markedly completely different from what you may have been used to seeing on Instagram. TikTok additionally appears to have taken inspiration from X and affords customers separate sections for viewing TikTok ‘Notes’ from folks they comply with, in addition to a separate “For You” tab that recommends folks chances are you’ll be concerned with following.

Incidentally, the information of TikTok Notes making its partial debut comes on the identical day Elon Musk hinted at the possible return of Vine. This standard brief video-sharing app predates TikTok and Instagram Reels.