Longtime TikTok users have resumed using the popular social media app following a brief shutdown Sunday, but it still remains unavailable for new users to download.
Users who already had the app downloaded on their phones could jump back on the short-video platform following a brief period during the weekend when TikTok went dark. But as of Wednesday morning, TikTok could still not be downloaded from the Apple and Google app stores in the United States, even after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to delay enforcing a ban.
The ban, which was due to go into effect Sunday, stems from a law that requires TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. assets in order to continue operating in the United States. While the law only mandated that ByteDance remove TikTok from app stores in the U.S. if it failed to meet the sale deadline, company executives made the decision to shutdown the app entirely.
