TikTok Has Not Yet Arrived In The US App Store TikTok, which disappeared from the US App Store on January 20, the day President-elect Donald Trump was sworn in, has yet to return. It was restored within 24 hours, but the app is still not available on download platforms.
Despite TikTok’s late return to the App Store in the US, its traffic has returned to near normal, according to data from Cloudflare Radar. David Belson, Cloudflare’s chief data officer, told CNBC that TikTok-related domains are seeing about 10 per cent less traffic than before the ban.
TikTok’s traffic dropped by up to 85 per cent when the app was shut down in the US due to the ban. TikTok has been back online since January 20, but it is still not available on Google Play or the Apple App Store.
Other apps from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance, such as Marvel Snap, Capcut and Lemon8, were also affected. All three apps have been back online in the US, but are not available on the App Store. There is no indication when they will return. Many users who are unable to download the app are trying to install it by resorting to methods such as using a VPN or changing their Apple ID region to Canada.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order delaying the ban on TikTok for 70 days. But the app is still not completely safe. Apple and Google are hesitant to allow TikTok and other ByteDance apps back into their stores due to legal uncertainty.
