TikTok has shut itself down in the US ahead of January 19 deadline.

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TikTok has shut itself down in the US ahead of January 19 deadline.
Author: news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher)
Published: Jan, 19 2025 03:53

A TikTok ban in the US that's been in the works for years started early on Saturday with the company locking down US users — but the entire saga remains more about politics than national security. TikTok. As of January 19, 2025, TikTok is no longer accessible within the US. The app is being removed from Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store, plus Oracle must now stop hosting the service's US user data.

Those existing users will see only an explanatory pop-up message on launching the app. TikTok's owners, Chinese firm ByteDance, is said to be working to allow users to download their data and personal information. The second notification sent to users with the app installed cites some sort of discussion taking place with president elect Donald Trump, despite him being the architect of the ban in the first place.

We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!. The ban is really the culmination of years of politics, but ostensibly, the reason is that TikTok is owned by a Chinese company. It's alleged that therefore that China could compel the company to provide it with confidential US user data.

President Trump proposed the ban in 2020,. "As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States," he said in August 1, 2020. "Soon, immediately. I mean essentially immediately. I will sign the document tomorrow.". It was on August 7, 2020, that Trump signed the Executive Order banning TikTok, and giving it a deadline of September 20. The order specified that such Chinese-owned apps continue "to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.".

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