Twenty -six days after exile from American application stores, Tiktok returned to the iOS and Google Play Store application. Apple and Google have restored the Chinese video after receiving a letter from the prosecutor general Pam Bondi, assuring companies that they will not be fined for hosting, Bloomberg First reported Thursday.
Google confirmed that he wiredly restored Tiktok, but did not develop immediately when the cause. Apple, Tiktok and the Department of Justice did not immediately answer requests for comment. Bondi was sworn in to office last week.
The return ends a few weeks for Tiktok. The platform disappeared from American application stores and began to darken users throughout the country on January 19, a few hours before the ban on the ban. He returned to life later on the same day, after the directors of Tiktok received their own assurances from the then president’s president Donald Trump that he would provide more time to solve the solution. If you already had an application on your phone, it worked normally the same afternoon.
After President Donald Trump took office on January 20, one of his first executive orders He gave Tiktok relief. “I instruct the Prosecutor General not to take any action to enforce the Act for a period of 75 days to enable my administration to be able to determine the appropriate course,” we read in the order.
However, Google and Apple continued to hold the tiktok away from their markets, which means that novel users cannot install it. This is because the law that is subject to Tiktok Ban – the protection of Americans against foreign applications controlled by the opponent (Pafaca) – is that American technology companies cannot “distribute, maintain or update” any applications from Bytedance, a mother company Tiktok. Those who are in the face of the prospect of huge fines. This means not only Tiktok, but a dozen or so applications, including popular offers such as Lemon8, Capcut and Marvel Snap, were not available for download for over three weeks. (These applications also returned to applications stores on Thursday.)
While Tiktok was unavailable, users looking for it in the iOS App Store were welcomed by the following message: “Tiktok and other Bytedance applications are not available in the country or region in which you are.” Link “Learn more”, sent users to explain why the application disappeared, and reminding that they would not receive any updates as long as the ban would be in place. Meanwhile, the Google Play store said: “files to this application are stopped due to current legal requirements in the USA.” Searchers were directed to competitive applications, several of which recorded an augment in employ.
Pafe allow The president, to extend the deadline for prohibiting Tiktok by 90 days, if he certifies the Congress that “significant progress” has been made towards the contract for the sale of the Non-Chińska company.
Just before taking office, Trump suggested that the US could have 50 percent of the property of Tiktok, without determining what he meant. Apparently the president recently crazy Vice President JD Vance conducts negotiations between Bytedance and potential buyers. One Reported scenario It would include Oracle and a group of other investors taking control of the platform.