TikTok is no longer available in the United States —at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based users.
Late on Saturday, the app stopped working for its millions of US users, disappearing from Apple and Google app stores. The ByteDance owned app was slated for a complete shutdown in the USA, following federal ban.
With TikTok, CapCut, and Marvel Snap shut down in the US, Apple has taken the unusual step of articulating why it’s following the law banning ByteDance apps and removing them from the App Stores for the Mac, iPhone, and other devices.
Amid the TikTok shutdown, in a rare move, Apple published a statement and a support document listing all affected apps that are inaccessible in the U.S.
With TikTok facing a potential US ban due to its ties with ByteDance, Perplexity AI has proposed a merger involving TikTok US, ByteDance, and New Capital Partners. The proposal, reported by CNBC, aims to preserve ByteDance's existing investor stakes while circumventing regulatory threats.
Marvel Snap” is a casualty of the U.S.’s move to ban TikTok over fears about its Chinese parent company. It’s not just TikTok that winked offline for U.S. users Saturday, just hours before the Jan. 19 deadline in the U.
Inside TikTok, an email to employees said that “President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office” on the 20th, an
TikTok officially went dark for users of the popular social media late Saturday night, just a few hours before a ban was set to take effect.
Kevin O’Leary’s $20B TikTok offer is rejected as ByteDance confirms it won’t sell the key technology behind the app’s success.
Users were unable to access TikTok Saturday, instead seeing a pop-up message on their screens saying "a law banning TikTok has been enacted."
The popular app TikTok has "gone dark" for the 170 million American users following the Supreme Court upholding a law that bans the app in the United States.