{"id":81638,"date":"2025-08-14T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81638\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:34:08","slug":"apple-eyes-douyin-pay-for-mainland-app-store-while-iphone-17-leak-stirs-online-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81638\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple eyes Douyin Pay for mainland App Store while iPhone 17 \u2018leak\u2019 stirs online debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple<\/a> has started testing Douyin Pay<\/a> as a new mobile payment<\/a> service on its China App Store, according to mainland media reports, while purportedly leaked images of the iPhone<\/a> 17 stirred up discussion on Chinese social media<\/a> this week.Launched in January 2021, Douyin Pay is a service under ByteDance<\/a>-owned domestic short video platform Douyin, the Chinese sibling of TikTok<\/a>. Douyin had about 766.5 million monthly active users, according to data published last month by digital marketing agency Sekkei Digital Group.<\/p>\n

The potential addition of Douyin Pay to the mainland App Store reflects the continued growth of mobile payment services in the world\u2019s second-largest economy, where Alipay and WeChat Pay dominate the vast market.<\/p>\n

\"ByteDance-ownedByteDance-owned Douyin had an estimated 766.5 million monthly active users on the mainland. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, supposedly leaked images online of the iPhone 17 have triggered heated discussion on Chinese social media about the alleged new design.<\/p>\n

One image of a presumed iPhone 17 Pro model showed a large horizontal camera \u201cisland\u201d on the back of the handset. That design was initially seen on Casetify\u2019s new iPhone 17 cases last week, when the images were mistakenly posted on the company\u2019s website. Those images were subsequently removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple has started testing Douyin Pay as a new mobile payment service on its China App Store, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[35402,4629,57116,50028,517,516,18744,550,17758,144,57117,57115,57119,57118,1530,5425,4536,1366,165,57112,57113,108,74,1153,25740,57114],"class_list":["post-81638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-alibaba-group-holding","tag-alipay","tag-ant-group","tag-app-store","tag-apple","tag-apple-watch","tag-baidu","tag-beijing","tag-bytedance","tag-china","tag-china-unionpay","tag-counterpoint","tag-douyin","tag-douyin-pay","tag-fintech","tag-hong-kong","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-17","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-payment","tag-rednote","tag-social-media","tag-technology","tag-tiktok","tag-wechat-pay","tag-weibo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}