After more than 25 days, Apple and Google Tiktok recovered in the Thrusday evening in the US. Both companies removed the app on January 18 from the App Store and the Play Store in response to a National Security Act.
Other Bytedance apps such as Video -Editor Capcut and Social App Lemon8 were also restored to this app -stores. Apple, which published a rare support document with details about these deletions, has now removed the support document.
On January 19 Tiktok started to restore the services to existing users, but Apple and Google kept the app out of their stores. That meant that if you had removed Tiktok, you couldn’t have got it. Earlier this month Tiktok insisted on users on Android for the app to Sideload via the website.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order immediately after he took the office to give a 75 -day life line to the app. Within these 75 days, bytedance must sell Tiktok to an entity in the US or be confronted with a ban.
Trump said last month that he would like the US to have 50% share of Tiktok together with other companies through a joint venture. He also meant the American Soverign Fund that could participate in the interaction of Tiktok.
Last month CNBC reported that The traffic of Tiktok was restored almost 90% from the pre-Ban time According to Cloudflare radar data. However, rival social networks try to bank on this thunderstorm. Both X and Bluesky launched special vertical video tops while Meta announced a video editing -announced that capcut would match.
According to data from analysis company Sensor Tower, Tiktok was The second most downloaded app in the country last year with 52 million downloads.
