TikTok advises Android users in the US to sideload the app

If you request to download and instal TikTok successful the US, you tin bash truthful connected Android adjacent though the app isn't backmost connected the Play Store yet. In a tweet, the TikTok Policy relationship has announced that the work has made Android Package Kits available for download done its authoritative web site. Companies don't typically endorse sideloading, but Tiktok is, of course, a peculiar case. 

The app briefly went offline connected January 19 earlier a instrumentality banning it successful the US — unless its genitor institution ByteDance sells it to an proprietor based successful the state — took effect. Under that law, the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store are required to region its listing if they don't privation to get slapped with a good amounting to $5,000 for each idiosyncratic successful the US who downloads the app. It didn't instrumentality a afloat time earlier TikTok restored access to its service, but its app has yet to reappear connected Google's and Apple's stores successful the US.

One of the enforcement orders President Donald Trump signed erstwhile helium took bureau enactment a 75-day intermission connected the instrumentality that banned the app, giving ByteDance until April to scope a deal. Trump has reportedly enactment Vice President J.D. Vance in charge of negotiating a imaginable merchantability earlier the deadline. ByteDance repeatedly said successful the past that it had nary plans to merchantability the societal media app, but 1 of the company's biggest investors precocious said that a woody is successful "everybody's interest." Several companies and individuals person already expressed their volition to acquisition TikTok successful the US, including Perplexity AI and MrBeast.

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