The TikTok US-only app strategy centers on creating an independent recommendation system that would operate entirely apart from ByteDance’s global infrastructure. The new app is expected to use only ...

Social media giant TikTok will launch a new version of its popular app to Apple's and Google's app stores on September 5, as part of an agreement to sell its US business looms.

TikTok remains downloadable on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store, despite US laws targeting the Chinese-owned app ...

The companies have also restored other apps owned by TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance — the video editor CapCut and social media app Lemon8 — that they had removed to comply with the law.

Apple and Google brought TikTok back to their app stores for US users on Thursday night. TikTok had been unavailable to download in the US since January. TikTok's app was removed due to a divest ...

The app's users in the United States report being unable to access the app, even with VPNs. A person holding an iPhone displaying a message that TikTok is no longer available, January 18, 2025.

TikTok is preparing to shut down its popular short-video app to hundreds of millions of users in the U.S. if a federal ban goes into effect Sunday, reports say. Sunday is the deadline for TikTok's ...

The return concludes a fraught few weeks for TikTok. The platform disappeared from US app stores and went dark for users nationwide on January 19, hours before the ban went into effect. It ...

TikTok had over 170 million users in the US as of 2025. Aside from creators, businesses that spent handsomely on ads on the platform are also in a state of unpredictable unrest.

However, according to Reuters, TikTok plans to immediately shut the app to all US users from Sunday, January 19, if the ban is upheld. It will apparently do this using a pop-up message in the app.

The US then gave TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, which is Chinese, a January 19 deadline to find a buyer for the app in the United States or face a ban. TikTok then challenged the law in court.

There’s no 1:1 TikTok replacement, but there are some viable options to consider that offer a similar experience. Many companies have spent the last few years building out TikTok clones within ...