Tiktok Traffic Is Recovering, But It’s Still Not Back In App Stores

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

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

The shutdown too affected different apps owned by TikTok genitor institution ByteDance, including Marvel Snap, CapCut, and Lemon8. Even though each 3 apps personification restored their services successful nan US, they aren’t disposable successful app stores, either — and there’s nary denotation erstwhile they mightiness return. Many users incapable to download nan apps personification 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 nan app still isn’t successful nan 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.