Apple and Google Thursday evening restored Tiktok in their respective application stores in the United States, almost a month after deleting the short video application following a national security law which prohibited it in the country.
Companies have also restored other applications belonging to the mother company of Tiktok, Bytedance, (Capcut video editor and application of Lemon8 social media) which they had withdrawn to comply with the law.
Stimulated by the national security problems broadcast on the Chinese origins of Bytedance for a number of years, former American president Joe Biden adopted a law last year which called bytedance to sell the US Tiktok operations to a company that did not belong a Chinese entity before January 19. , 2025, or be banished from the country. The law would have imposed serious financial sanctions on the operators of the App Store if they did not comply, and following by Bytedance calls, the Supreme Court voted to confirm the law on January 17.
But just after taking office, current US President Donald Trump signed a decree on January 20 to delay the ban, giving Bytedance an extension of 75 days to find a buyer for his American operations.
Tiktok quickly restored services in the country. Service providers like Oracle have also restored their services to application, but Apple and Google have kept the application outside their American application stores because there was a certain confusion concerning the sanctions which would be imposed because the law n ‘had been deferred.
For users in the United States, those who did not have the installation of Tiktok were unable to reinstall the application, but those who had not been able to use it.
Since then, Trump has suggested that the United States may have a 50% share in Tiktok thanks to a joint venture with other technological companies as an alternative to the prohibition. In addition to the signing of a decree to create a sovereign fund, he suggested that the fund could be used to buy US Tiktok operations. Oracle and Microsoft would be running to buy the application.
Rivals social networks have tried to bank on uncertainty around Tiktok. X and Bluesky quickly launched dedicated vertical video flows, and Meta announced a video editing application that would compete with Capcut.
According to data from the sensor tower of the analysis company, Tiktok was The second most downloaded application in the United States last year, with 52 million downloads.
