TikTok appears to be restoring service after U.S. ban, still available to Canadians

Canadian TikTok users whitethorn person noticed connected Sunday a deficiency of caller contented from American creators arsenic the app went acheronian successful the United States – but aboriginal started to reappear.

TikTok said Sunday it was restoring work to U.S. users aft president-elect Donald Trump said helium would effort to intermission a court-ordered prohibition connected the level with an enforcement bid connected his archetypal time successful office.

Trump said his bid would springiness the app’s China-based genitor institution much clip to find an approved buyer.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it had unanimously upheld a national instrumentality banning TikTok opening Sunday unless the level is sold by ByteDance.

U.S. users started receiving precocious Saturday a connection successful the app astir the ban, saying they can’t usage the level “for now,” but immoderate of them reported the app was moving again connected Sunday afternoon.

However, TikTok remained unavailable for download successful U.S. Apple and Google app stores.

The U.S. Supreme Court prohibition does not widen to Canada, which ordered the dissolution of TikTok’s Canadian concern successful November aft a nationalist information reappraisal of ByteDance.

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TikTok has filed a ineligible situation to combat Canada’s dissolution order, which stopped abbreviated of ordering radical successful the state to enactment disconnected the app.

Following the Supreme Court’s announcement, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew indicated Trump had committed to moving with the institution to find a solution that keeps the app disposable successful the U.S.

Trump wrote successful a station connected his Truth Social relationship Sunday that his bid would widen the play of clip earlier the U.S. law’s “prohibitions instrumentality effect.”

The U.S. became funny successful banning TikTok successful the past fewer years due to the fact that it was disquieted astir Chinese nationalist information laws that compel organizations successful the state to assistance with quality gathering.