Summary TikTok was taken down from US app stores just hours before the January 19 deadline, with app users getting notified of the shutdown.
There is some hope that President-elect Trump may reinstate TikTok temporarily following his inauguration on January 20, 2025.
Using workarounds like VPNs or sideloading the TikTok APK on Android has proven ineffective.
The clock has been ticking on ByteDance-owned TikTok over the last few days, with the writing pretty much on the wall after the US Supreme Court upheld the ban on the platform as part of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act passed by Congress last year. Well, the inevitable has now happened, with TikTok being taken down from app hubs, including the Google Play Store.
Hours before the ban was set to go into effect, users on both Android and iOS started seeing in-app notices stating that
It’s official: TikTok goes offline in the US
