Ahead of the possible TikTok ban, "TikTok refugees" are flocking to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, or Red Note, with strange and fascinating consequences.

Cancel anytime. With an impending ban on TikTok in the U.S., Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu has become the most downloaded app from Apple's U.S. app store. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device.

which shares parent company ByteDance with TikTok — have blitzed to the top of the Apple App Store. As of Tuesday morning, Xiaohongshu (aka RedNote) is the top-ranked free app in the country ...

As Supreme Court justices ponder the future of TikTok in the United States, a growing number of American social media users have responded by moving to an unlikely alternative: Xiaohongshu, a hugely popular social media app in China.

TikTok users fleeing the ByteDance-owned social platform ahead of a crucial Supreme Court decision on its future sent a rival Chinese app to the top of Apple’s charts in the US on Monday. While the exact number of downloads is unknown,

RedNote became the top free-to-download app on the US Apple App Store this Monday amid fears of TikTok being banned in the United States.

Several social media apps have appearing high in app store chart rankings as a potential U.S. ban hangs over the heads of TikTok and its American users.

Chinese social apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8 have soared to the top two spots on Apple's iPhone charts ahead of the U.S.'s impending TikTok ban.

TikTok’s app and website effectively shut down in the United States late Saturday just before a nationwide ban against the video-sharing platform came into force. The company showed its millions of American users a pop-up message that thanked President-elect Donald Trump for indicating he will work with the company on a solution when he takes office on Monday.

A rare wave of U.S.-China camaraderie broke out online in recent days as “refugees” from the popular short video platform TikTok poured onto a Chinese social media platform to protest a now-delayed ban on the service.

The Chinese app Xiaohongshu has become the most downloaded in the U.S. as TikTok users migrate due to potential bans.