FILE — Google Play restored TikTok to its U.S. app store along with Apple on Thursday. (Source: AP/Kiichiro Sato)
Apple and Google have reportedly made TikTok available again on their U.S. app stores.
According to multiple outlets, Google Play restored TikTok to its U.S. app store along with Apple on Thursday.
The reported actions followed promises by President Donald Trump to save the app and an executive action delaying the ban of the popular social media platform.
CNN reports TikTok shut down for roughly 14 hours in January but made a quick return to promises made by President-elect Trump to keep the platform working in the U.S.
TikTok’s questionable future in the U.S. stems from a law signed last April by President Joe Biden citing national security concerns regarding the platform.
The law required TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance to find an approved buyer for its U.S. platform or face a ban.
The Supreme Court upheld the law a few days before Trump was inaugurated.
The Associated Press reports an executive order Trump signed shortly after being sworn in as president enabled the app to continue operating for 75 days, or until early April.