Restored: TikTok Once Again Available For Download In U.S. App Stores
Both Apple and Google have restored TikTok, the wildly popular social media platform, to their respective U.S. app stores as of Thursday evening (13th February, 2025). This follows promises by President Donald Trump to save the app and an executive action delaying the enactment of a TikTok ban.
TikTok’s uncertain future stems from a law signed last April by then-President Joe Biden, which gave China’s ByteDance 270 days to sell the app to an owner from the United States or one of its allies or face a ban, based on U.S. national security concerns. The day before the blackout, the Supreme Court upheld the ban.TikTok shutdown for roughly fourteen (14) hours in January but attributed its quick return to promises made by the then-President-elect Donald Trump, to keep the platform working in the U.S. However, its 175 million users still ran into at least one problem: The app was, as of that January weekend, unavailable on Apple and Google Play stores, along with Lemon8 and CapCut, which are also owned by TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance.
Apple previously said in a statement that it removed TikTok from its App Store because of the ban, but the app remained available for customers who already downloaded it.
More on this as it becomes available.
[Source: CNN]
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