The high three hottest apps on Apple’s App Store this morning are various social media platforms not included on the eSafety commissioner’s age-restricted platforms checklist.
Top apps on Apple’s App Store this morning are various social media apps not included on the eSafety Commissioner’s age-restricted platforms checklist, together with Lemon8, Yope, and Coverstar.
Lemon8 is the primary free app, which means it’s the most-downloaded free app within the nation proper now. Created by Chinese tech large ByteDance – which owns TikTok – the app is billed as “Instagram meets Pinterest” in how customers can share pictures and movies like Instagram, and save them to collections, much like Pinterest boards. (Instagram is an age-restricted platform, Pinterest, nevertheless, just isn’t included within the ban at this stage.)
Yope, which is a personal, friends-only picture sharing app much like Snapchat (banned) and WhatsApp (not banned), is second on Apple’s high app charts this morning, and Coverstar, which payments itself as “the most secure TikTok various for youths 9 to 16” is third.
Communications Minister Anika Wells addressed this final week, noting that she and the eSafety commissioner are taking a look at “migratory patterns”.
“If we discover that as a result of they’ve been logged out of Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok [or] what have you ever, they find yourself on Lemon8, then we’ll take a look at whether or not the hurt has transferred there and whether or not we have to add them to the checklist,” Wells stated.
“Should any specific platform like Lemon8 … grow to be the brand new supply, I cannot hesitate to behave.”
