TREE NEWS update: Videos on the Dongchedi app could not be played on Huawei phones, with the page showing a message that the function is “gradually being opened.” A person familiar with the matter said the Hongmeng version of the Dongchedi app has not yet connected the playback function for videos sourced from Douyin, so some videos bearing the Douyin label cannot be played for now. The issue is unrelated to the video content and is not a case of the HarmonyOS system blocking the videos.
Douyin-sourced videos unavailable in Hongmeng version of Dongchedi app, source says
This is a platform-integration gap, not a content-moderation or system-level block, and the distinction matters: ByteDance's video infrastructure and Huawei's HarmonyOS are being stitched together app by app, and Dongchedi's Hongmeng build is simply behind. The practical exposure sits with HarmonyOS users of that app and with the two companies' product teams, not with regulators. The open question is whether such cross-ecosystem playback links keep closing quietly as HarmonyOS-native apps mature, or whether they become recurring friction points in the ByteDance-Huawei relationship.
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