TikTok traffic is recovering, but it’s still not back in app stores

Jan 31, 2025 10:30 PM - 1 week ago 10474

Emma Roth

Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, user tech, crypto, societal media, and overmuch more. Previously, she was a writer and editor astatine MUO.

TikTok’s postulation is almost backmost to normal contempt its delayed return to US app stores, according to Cloudflare Radar information seen by CNBC. The “DNS postulation for TikTok-related domains” is astir 10 percent little than the levels earlier its abrupt shutdown, David Belson, Cloudflare’s caput of information insight, told CNBC.

To compare, TikTok’s postulation dipped arsenic overmuch arsenic 85 percent when the app went dark successful consequence to the US divest-or-ban law, Cloudflare reported astatine the time. TikTok started coming back online connected January 19th, but the app has remained unavailable connected Google Play and the Apple App Store ever since.

The shutdown besides affected different apps owned by TikTok genitor institution ByteDance, including Marvel Snap, CapCut, and Lemon8. Even though each 3 apps person restored their services successful the US, they aren’t disposable successful app stores, either — and there’s nary denotation erstwhile they mightiness return. Many users incapable to download the apps person resorted to methods for illustration utilizing a VPN aliases changing their Apple ID region to Canada successful an effort to get them back.

President Donald Trump has since signed an executive bid delaying TikTok’s ban, but the app still isn’t successful the clear conscionable yet. That ineligible uncertainty mightiness beryllium what’s making Apple and Google hesitant to bring TikTok and different ByteDance-owned apps backmost to their stores.

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