Twitch completes its TikTok makeover with new app update

Twitch’s mobile app is getting a large update that puts its TikTok-like provender beforehand and center. The institution started investigating the update earlier this year, and implicit the people of this week, the caller app volition rotation retired to each users connected Android and iOS, Twitch says successful a blog post.

The large alteration is that the caller app volition unfastened connected a provender of contented you mightiness similar (a “Home” tab) alternatively of opening connected the “Following” tab. The alteration follows a batch of steps successful this absorption from Twitch: the institution announced an archetypal “discovery feed” experimentation in August, and it rolled the provender retired to each users in April arsenic a “Feed” tab successful the mobile app. Earlier this year, arsenic portion of his 2024 unfastened letter, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy besides discussed the company’s plans to marque the find provender the “new landing acquisition successful the app.”

More than 50 percent of Twitch users “primarily” ticker Twitch connected their phone, but “we request to marque it easier for these viewers to find contented erstwhile they sojourn Twitch and marque the acquisition much amusive truthful that they travel backmost much often,” the institution says successful its blog post. The volition of the redesigned app is to marque it “easy to find streamers that you already emotion portion besides exploring and discovering caller streamers.”

The caller app besides has a Browse tab, an Activity tab to spot notifications, a illustration tab, and a positive fastener you tin pat to entree features similar starting a livestream. If you privation to spot what’s going connected from the streamers you follow, you tin pat the Following provender successful the upper-left corner.