TikTok to be banned in the US from Sunday after Supreme Court ruling The US Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a law banning TikTok starting on Sunday, unless the app is sold by its China-based parent company ByteDance.
A sale does not appear imminent and, although experts have said the app will not disappear from existing users' phones once the law takes effect, new users will not be able to download it and updates will not be available.
The US has said it is concerned about TikTok collecting vast swaths of user data, including sensitive information on viewing habits, that could fall into the hands of the Chinese government through coercion.
TikTok allows users to watch hundreds of videos in about half an hour because some are only a few seconds long, but experts have raised fears that is addictive and can have a negative mental health impact for children.
That will eventually render the app unworkable, the US Justice Department has said in court filings.
