A judge issued a temporary injunction against Trump’s executive order to ban TikTok from iPhone and Android. The app remains available for download in the App Store and Google Play following the decision.
TikTok continues to remain available for download on iPhone and Android, as a judge blocked on Sunday the Trump administration’s executive order that would have forced Apple and Google to remove the app from their app stores. This would have effectively blocked new users from getting the app. While Judge Carl Nichols of United States District Court for the District of Columbia did give ByteDance a reprieve, it’s not a full victory for the Chinese company that’s still trying to salvage its US operations. TikTok became another point of contention between the US and China in recent months. The government worries that the user data is stored outside of the country and that the Chinese government might use it. The Trump administration has advocated for a sale of the US side of the TikTok business for weeks, and Microsoft was at one point directly interested in the deal.
