Less than a month after Tiktok pulled Tiktok from US app stores in response to a new law requiring Tiktok to be sold from China-based owners, social media platforms on Thursday night I’ve returned to both Apple and Google stores.
A Google spokesperson told CBS News that Tiktok has been restored to the App Store. The app is now available on the Apple Store. CBS News reached out to Apple and Tiktok for comment.
The move comes after Bloomberg reported that Attorney General Pam Bondy had notified Apple and Google that the new law would not come into effect anytime soon.
Beijing-based parent company Baitedan, Tiktok, can use the extremely popular short video app to spy on Americans and manipulate content seen on the platform. Concerns were growing.
That’s what the bipartisan bill was like. Sign the law In April 2024, former President Joe Biden gave Tiktok until January 19th to lose or fail access to app stores and web hosting services in the United States.
Tiktok and Baited challenged the law, but they did. Upheld by the Supreme Court A few days before it was implemented, we cited the risks to national security to app data collection practices.
When the deadline came last month, Tiktok Temporarily and voluntarily shut down the service In the US, the app was also drawn from Apple and Google Play stores, despite saying it would be up to the Trump administration to implement it during a time of decline in the Biden administration.
However, just one day later, on the same day as his inauguration, President Trump I signed an executive order It asked the Department of Justice to not enforce the law for at least 75 days.
Tiktok continued to operate for the US people who had already downloaded the app, but updates were not available unless they were accessible in the app store.
Trump told reporters Thursday that there are many interested in the Tiktok acquisition, and he hoped the deal would take place.
“We probably need to get approval from China to do that,” Trump said. “I think China is interested because so is their interest.”
