“In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service,” the company said in a statement. “We thank President T

TikTok is restoring service in the US

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2025-01-19 18:30:06

“In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service,” the company said in a statement. “We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive.”

A law that would either force TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell the app or see it banned in the United States was scheduled to take effect today. The law also made it illegal for US companies to support the distribution, maintenance, or updating of the app.

With President-elect Donald Trump about to take office, officials from President Joe Biden’s White House and the Department of Justice said they’d leave enforcement of the law to the Trump administration, but TikTok said “critical service providers” needed a “definitive statement,” otherwise the app would go dark. And indeed, the app stopped working last night and it disappeared from the Apple and Google Play app stores.

Earlier today, however, President-elect Donald Trump posted that he would be issuing an executive order that would delay the ban, and he suggested that he’d like to see TikTok restored sooner than later because “Americans deserve to see our exciting Inauguration on Monday.” To that end, he said his order would “confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order.”