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.

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.

Since Monday, Xiaohongshu has become the top downloaded free app on Apple’s App Store in the U.S. Xiaohongshu, which in English means “Little Red Book” is a Chinese social media app that combines e-commerce, short video and posting functions.

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.

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.

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.

BEIJING - Share prices related to Xiaohongshu surged in the morning session on Wednesday after the Chinese Instagram-style app reached the top of the Apple App Store chart in the United States.

With the U.S. ban on TikTok looming, many Americans are opting for another Chinese app known as RedNote. It could be short-lived.

Red hot: key facts about Xiaohongshu, the Chinese app taking the US by storm In the days leading up to a proposed US government ban on the social media platform TikTok, American users have turned to another Chinese-owned app,

As TikTok prepares for a ban in the US after getting no relief from the Supreme Court, many in the US are now downloading Xiaohongshu (RedNote), a Chinese app, in record high numbers. The Chinese are welcoming the American TikTok refugees,

TikTokers like Abryanna Davis are mourning the loss of both their income and the community they built on the app, which is set to be banned Sunday.