The last month has been a roller coaster ride for TikTok in the US. The app is now back and ready for you to download on the Google Play Store as well as Apple’s App Store after

TikTok has been made available on the App Store and Google Play Store again in the US, after the app was delisted when a ban upheld by the Supreme Court went into effect on January 18.

TikTok has been absent from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store since January. Now, it’s back. Here’s all you need to know.

The law requires TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. assets in order to continue operating in the U.S. While the law only mandated that ByteDance remove TikTok from app stores in the U.S. if it failed to meet the sale deadline, company executives decided to shut down the app entirely.

Google Play said it restored TikTok to the US app store on Thursday, following promises by President Donald Trump to save the app and an executive action delaying the enactment of a ban on the wildly popular social media platform.

Apple ’s App Store and the Google Play store have restored TikTok for U.S. users as of Thursday, after the companies had removed it on Jan. 19.

The popular app, which is owned by China’s ByteDance, reappeared for download on Apple's App Store today. Google Play reportedly said it was doing the same.

According to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, TikTok was first spotted reappearing on the Apple App Store. Users on X chimed in, reporting that the app had returned as early as Wednesday, February 12. Experiences vary as some had more difficulties than others, but it seems more widely available for Apple's iPhones today (Feb 14.)

TikTok was restored to Apple's App Store and Google Play on Thursday following stronger signals from President Donald Trump that it will be allowed to continue operating in the U.S.

TikTok was restored to the Apple App Store and Google Play on Thursday night following weeks of limbo after President Donald Trump's administration delayed a ban on the social media app.

When the deadline came last month, TikTok briefly and voluntarily shut down service in the U.S. The app was also pulled from the Apple and Google Play stores, even though the Biden administration ...