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TikTok is now available for download again on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in the US after being temporarily blocked. The app was removed from the stores on 19 January 2025 due to a short-term ban at the national level.
TikTok is still not available on Google Play and the Apple App Store. However, the company allows users in the US to download the Android app through its official website.
US President Donald Trump told reporters that Microsoft Corporation is in talks to acquire the popular TikTok app. Trump expressed his desire to see a trade war over the app.
Social network Bluesky is actively introducing video. Following the launch of a new TikTok-like video feed last week due to a temporary ban on the app in the US, the company announced on Monday that it will now have a new video tab in user profiles.
Perplexity has submitted a new merger proposal with TikTok, under which the US government will receive up to a 50% stake in the future company.
The Trump administration is in talks to have Oracle, along with new US investors, become the owner of TikTok, NPR reports.
Ahead of TikTok's ban in the US on Sunday, American users started using the Chinese app RedNote, which provided a similar experience with short videos.
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order instructing the Department of Justice not to temporarily impose fines on US companies that cooperate with TikTok.
TikTok has announced that it has restored operations in the US following the outage, which took place today, after the law went into effect.
Amid the TikTok shutdown, Apple has released a statement and support document listing all affected apps unavailable in the US. The iPhone maker doesn't usually publish information about app blocking, but this time it said it was removing developer ByteDance's apps from its App Store due to a related law that went into effect.
On Saturday evening, 18 January, the TikTok app stopped working and was removed from the App Store and Google Play, just hours before the ban took effect on 19 January. Users who had previously installed the app are now seeing a pop-up window with the message: "Sorry, TikTok is currently unavailable".
After the US Supreme Court upheld a ban on TikTok unless it is sold to a private US investor, the company has independently decided to cease operations in the country from Sunday, 19 January.
TikTok CEO Shou Ji Zhou responded to Donald Trump's comments on the US Supreme Court's decision to ban the app in the country.
Starting from the beginning of next week, TikTok may be banned from US app stores, so Instagram has decided to add new features to its Reels video functionality, which is analogous to TikTok.
TikTok is to be blocked in the US from 19 January 2025
