Apple and Google restored Tikok on Thursday evening on Thursday in the respective app stores in the USA, a few weeks after they removed the short video platform according to a national security law that banned the country.
The companies have also removed other apps that belong to the Tikoks parent company bytedance – Video Editor Capcut and Social Media App Lemon8 – and also restored them on Thursday.
Former US President Joe Biden passed the law last year and asked bytedance to sell Tikkok to a company that was not owned by a Chinese company until January 19. The law was suggested by concerns that the company’s connections to Beijing threatened national security and had imposed heavy financial punishments if they did not meet. The Supreme Court had confirmed the law January 17th.
But immediately after he had accepted an office, the current US President Donald Trump on January 20 on January 20 signed an executive order aimed to delay the law and gave an extension of bytedance by 75 days to find a seller.
Tikok immediately Restored services in the countryBut Apple and Google kept the app out of their shops because there was some confusion about the punishments that were imposed since the law was postponed.
For users in the USA, those who had uninstalled Tikok could not reinstall it, but those who could not use it. At the beginning of this month, Tiktok asked Android smartphone users to deduct the app.
Since then, Trump has said that he wants the United States to have a 50% share of TikKok by a joint venture with other technology companies. He also opened A sovereign fund That could take part in TikKs Dealmaking.
CNBC reported that last month Tikok’s traffic was restored almost 90% from the time before the Baner era After Cloudflare radard data. However, competitor social networks are trying to deal with this uncertainty. Both X And Bluesky Started dedicated vertical video feeds while Meta was announced A video editing app That would compete with capcut.
According to the data of the Analytics company, sensor tower was Tiktok The country’s second most common app last year with 52 million downloads.
