Apple and Google restored TikTok to their app platforms Thursday night. The clock on the reprieve granted by Donald Trump for ...

TikTok has been absent on Apple App Store and Google’s Play Store since the short-lived ban last month. While users can use ...

TikTok had been removed from the app stores when it briefly went dark last month amid compliance with a law passed to ban it.

If an iPhone offloaded TikTok, the app would no longer be available in the store to download. In other words, while your ...

TikTok was removed from Apple and Google’s app stores on Jan. 18 to comply with a law that requires ByteDance to divest the ...

However, the timescale does fit with Apple's usual product strategy, which is often described as tick/tock: the tick is a major new version and the tock, a year later, is a minor update.

The app’s availability in the U.S. has been thrown into jeopardy over data privacy and national security concerns.

Meanwhile, the app itself could degrade over time and ultimately become unusable if companies like Apple and Google cannot distribute ... Guess we’ll see what happens over time. Tick tock, TikTok.