TikTok has officially stopped working in the United States, according to media reports and users. Let us recall that the reason for the blocking was a law requiring the parent company ByteDance to close or sell the application.
The application was removed from the App Store and Google Play stores, and it is also not available on the Internet. Before the shutdown, TikTok warned users in the United States that «our services temporarily unavailable» due to the ban, but the owners intend to restore the application as soon as possible. According to The Verge, the team hopes to return TikTok after the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on January 20. For this reason, when trying to enter the application, the following message is displayed:
In addition, other ByteDance applications were banned. The CapCut video editor and the Lemon8 social platform are no longer available for users in the United States. Fans of the Marvel Snap superhero card game, which is also owned by ByteDance, faced the same problem. Its servers were turned off this Saturday without warning users.
The fate of TikTok and other ByteDance apps will likely be decided soon.