TikTok on your telly! The social video app is coming to LG TVs

(Pocket-lint) - TikTok instrumentality but your telephone surface conscionable not rather large capable for your liking? Well, if you ain a existent LG TV past the video societal app is coming.

LG announced today, 7 October 2021, that each its 2020 and 2021 tellies - with webOS 5 and beyond operating systems installed anyhow - volition person the app disposable via a firmware update. So support an oculus retired for an over-the-air prompt, get that installed, and the app should beryllium available.

Your LG TV older than that? It's not each atrocious news: the Korean institution states that "[TikTok] volition besides beryllium disposable for 2019 and FHD TVs successful the coming months" - truthful whether you've got a 4K Ultra-HD oregon smaller Full HD set, either OLED oregon NanoCell, by the extremity of 2021 it should beryllium successful afloat TikTok mode.

LG's webOS operating strategy is already strong, with entree to plentifulness of autochthonal apps that immoderate different brands are slower to get - Disney+, for illustration - truthful its enlargement with TikTok further bolsters the platform. It's not the archetypal strategy to person TikTok, though, arsenic Android TV has supported it for immoderate time.

If you're funny successful LG TVs past instrumentality a look astatine our comparison diagnostic astir the company's champion sets.

And if you're caller to TikTok and privation to cognize more, past work our diagnostic astir what it is and however it works.

Writing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 8 October 2021.