VPNs are a great tool to hide your IP address by connecting you to a secure server in a location of your choosing. Theoretically, that means you would be able to use a VPN to retain access to TikTok. And while the cybersecurity risks of using TikTok have been well-documented, that isn't going to stop the most dedicated users.
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
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.
The app had more than 170 million monthly users in the U.S. The black-out is the result of a law forcing the service offline unless it sheds its ties to ByteDance, its China-based parent company.
Users in the U.S. who opened the app were greeted with a message that read, "Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now."
If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that’s probably because it has, at least if you’re measuring via internet time.
On Saturday, TikTok users in the United States scrolled through the app in its final hours after the Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that required ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to sell the app by Sunday or otherwise face a ban. The mood among users was relatively somber, at least by TikTok’s typically unserious standards.
TikTok was not available for many of its 170 million users in the U.S. hours before a ban on the social media platform was supposed to go into effect.
TikTok’s app was removed from prominent app stores on Saturday just before a federal law that would have banned the popular social media platform was scheduled to go into effect.
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.
Late Saturday night, prominent app stores pulled the popular social video platform from their offerings in the U.S.