The TikTok app is still not available in Google Play or the iPhone App Store despite Trump's order halting the ban. Here's what's happening.
ByteDance restored TikTok service in the United States on Sunday night, but major tech companies like Apple and Google have yet to restore downloads of the app. With no way to update TikTok, app rot may soon set in.
Several ByteDance-owned apps still aren’t working for users in the US, and like TikTok, they’re not available on the App Store or Google Play, either.
If you search for TikTok on the App Store, you’ll see a message saying, “TikTok and other ByteDance apps are not available in the country or region you’re in,” while Google Play says, “Downloads for this app are paused due to current US legal requirements.”
TikTok is not the only app that went dark ahead of Sunday's ban. Here are six others removed from the Apple App and Google Play stores.
Apple and Google removed TikTok from their app stores Saturday, complying with a law requiring China's ByteDance to divest the social app or see it face an effective ban in the U.S.
TikTok is no longer available in the United States —at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based users.
CapCut, the video editor owned by TikTok parent ByteDance, is accessible for US users again, but app stores are still not carrying it.
TikTok, the Chinese tech company, ByteDance-owned social media platform is no longer available in the United States. The application and the company that runs it have warned its users in the country that the application may no longer be available from Sunday after the US Congress passed legislation banning the application.
TikTok is slowly restoring service in the US after complying with the divest-or-ban law, but Google and Apple have yet to reintroduce it to their app stores.
Instagram is launching a new app, Edits, that will immediately become a CapCut competitor when it launches next month. You can pre-order the app on the Apple App Store now, with Google Play Store availability to follow.
BEIJING (Reuters) -ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, has earmarked over 150 billion yuan ($20.64 billion) in capital expenditure for this year, much of which will be centred on artificial intelligence, two people briefed on the matter said.