Tech giants Google and Apple have restored the Chinese social media platform TikTok to their app stores.
China’s TikTok app was restored to both Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store on Thursday night, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The two tech giants initially pulled the Chinese social media platform from their app stores in response to the U.S. sell-or-ban legislation that went into effect on January 19. Notably, the law ordered a ban of TikTok in the United States if its parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, did not divest.
But the TikTok app was reinstated in Google and Apple’s stores after assurances from President Donald Trump, and after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi informed the tech giants that the new law would not immediately be enforced.
President Trump said in a January 20 executive order that he instructed the attorney general “not to…
