TikTok has launched a local and “reimagined” app on the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, the corporate introduced on Thursday. The Imaginative and prescient Professional launched on February 2 and already has over 1,000 apps particularly designed for the brand new gadget, and now one of the vital in style social platforms is one in every of them. Though you may watch TikTok movies by way of your browser on the Imaginative and prescient Professional, the brand new native app permits for a extra immersive viewing expertise.
Within the TikTok Imaginative and prescient Professional app, the navigation bar and like button are moved off-screen to permit for full video viewing, whereas the remark part and creator profiles seem as expansions on the facet of the feed.
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While you click on on the feedback part on the cell app, they seem on high of the video, and clicking on somebody’s profile takes you to a full web page. Nevertheless, with the Imaginative and prescient Professional, you possibly can view all of this stuff without delay. TikTok says that for the reason that Imaginative and prescient Professional removes display screen measurement and spatial boundaries, it permits for a way more immersive content material expertise. Because of this, you possibly can watch a video whereas scrolling via feedback with out having your view lower off, not like on the cell app.
The app helps you to watch TikTok movies in immersive places, like in Yosemite or on the moon. It additionally works with the gadget’s Shared House function, which suggests you possibly can watch TikTok movies whereas engaged on different apps.
On the cell app, the navigation bar is on the fitting, however on the Imaginative and prescient Professional app, the navigation bar has been moved to the left. TikTok says it made the change so as to align with Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional design greatest practices. The profile, share, like, feedback and sound icons are all on the fitting.
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The launch of the brand new app comes a couple of weeks after a product chief at TikTok confirmed that the corporate was creating the app.
At launch, the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional had 600-plus apps designed for the headset, together with Slack, Zoom, Microsoft 365 apps, Disney+. Earlier this week, Apple senior vp of worldwide advertising and marketing, Greg Joswiak, revealed that the Imaginative and prescient Professional now has greater than 1,000 apps designed particularly for it. Whereas the Imaginative and prescient Professional can run greater than 1.5 million appropriate iOS and iPad apps, spatial apps constructed for the headset have been designed to leverage its particular capabilities.
It make sense for TikTok to wish to present a spatial app particularly designed for the headset, particularly since different leisure/video apps like Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video have executed so. YouTube, which is one in every of TikTok’s greatest opponents, has stated a Imaginative and prescient Professional app is “on the roadmap” however hasn’t offered a selected timeline. By launching its app first, TikTok has a little bit of a bonus over YouTube.
