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TikTok for download on the Apple App Store — Credit: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images TikTok Is Back on the iPhone and Android App Stores
Apple and Google surprised us late last night with the equivalent of a “U up?” TikTok is back to download on their official app stores, and still nobody knows precisely what’s going on.
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Ban screen on TikTok app from January 19, 2025 — Credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images Deleted TikTok Too Soon? You Can Get It Back—If You Have an Android.
For the past three weeks, TikTok has existed in a weird purgatory, neither alive nor dead. You can use it, but you can’t download it from the official app stores. Now, TikTok will help you download, if you’re up for a little workaround.
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TikTok Shop Logo – Credit ByteDance Americans Spend $7 Million Per Day on TikTok Shop. So Now What?
TikTok will be banned in the U.S. on Sunday, January 19, unless a last-minute sale to another company goes through. What’ll happen to its e-commerce users?
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(Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images) Meek Mill Is Getting Clowned for Offering to Buy TikTok
X users have since dubbed the fictional app “MeekTok.”
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Design Pics/Getty Images The Tradwife Life Isn’t as Great as TikTok Makes It Seem, According to Actual Tradwives
NPR interviewed women with growing TikTok followings who self-identify as former tradwives — they don’t recommend the lifestyle.


