TikTok returned to the Apple and Google app stores on February 13 evening, SİA informs via CNBC.
The Chinese-owned social media app had been removed from the the two stores on January 18, moments after TikTok’s leadership temporarily halted service in the US in response to a national security law that went into effect the next day.
Nearly a month later, TikTok is once again available for download in the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Internet service providers like Apple, Google and Oracle could have incurred harsh penalties for violating the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. That law, which former President Joe Biden signed in April required China-based ByteDance to divest its TikTok US operations by January 19 or face an effective ban of the app in the country.
TikTok has argued that the law violates the First Amendment rights of its over 170 million US users, while the US government made the case that ByteDance’s ownership and its alleged ties to the People’s Republic of China make the app a national security risk. The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration in January, and, in an opinion, said, “Congress has determined that divestiture is necessary to address its well-supported national security concerns regarding TikTok’s data collection practices and relationship with a foreign adversary.”
TikTok pushed back on the Supreme Court’s decision, and followed through with its threat to shut down its US operations unless the Biden administration intervened.
The app came back online after President Donald Trump said he would postpone enforcement of the ban. He signed an executive order on his first day in office to extend the law’s deadline by an additional 75 days to April 5.
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