TikTok Code Points to Peer-to-Peer Payments Inside Direct Messages

Code buried in TikTok’s current U.S. iPhone app points to person-to-person payments inside direct messages, according to an Aug. 18 report by Bloomberg. The strings describe flows where a recipient can tap to accept money and a sender gets status updates. The same review says the feature would likely ride TikTok Pay, the app’s existing payments system in parts of Southeast Asia (Bloomberg).

What the U.S. app build actually shows

Bloomberg says the current U.S. iPhone build contains text and screens that map a direct-messages payments flow. The code points to a recipient view with a tap to accept prompt. It also includes messages that would notify the sender as the payment moves through steps. That is a concrete layout of how a person-to-person transfer could work inside a chat thread. The same code review links the feature to TikTok Pay as the likely backend, given where the company already processes in-app payments (Bloomberg).

A TikTok spokesperson told Bloomberg the feature has not entered testing in any market. That comment sets the current status. It puts this code closer to a blueprint than a live pilot (Bloomberg).

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