Unable to reinstall TikTok app after deletion

ellabonita wrote:

Why can’t i download Tik Tok

Because you have not read the posts here. If you had, then you would know the reason. Start at page 1 or even look at the section on the top of this page titled "Did you know?".

For what it's worth -- the only difference between "deleting" and "offloading" an app is the fact that offloading leaves behind the apps's user data, saved files and settings, so it's all still there when/if you redownload the app.

So, you did actually delete the app off your phone. Of course you did, because that's what freed up the space in your otherwise limited phone storage. If it wasn't deleting the app, where do you think that extra space was coming from?

I'll also say that offloading or deleting, on a daily basis, any of the apps I use, and then reacting this way when the strategu backfires, seems more insane to me.

If it makes you feel any better, I had my phone repaired and not once did they tell me wiping the phone would also take the app with it. It now sits in a folder with the iCloud download infinitely stuck next to it. Shoutout to the Genius Bar 😐

roxannappiah50 wrote:

I uninstalled my tic Tok I need my app back

Why did you uninstall it?

If your Apple ID is set to the US, you cannot get it back for now as it's been banned by the US Government. Apple cannot and will not go against a government mandate.

Learn to live without TikTok.

The app has been removed from the store and is no longer accessible even through internet browsers, google play also removed it as well. You won’t be able to get it back until they agree on a ban or not.

FYI - Anyone getting a new iPhone - So, my iPhone 13 Pros camera decided to stop working on 01/21. I had Tik Tok and everything was working just great. My carrier sent me a new iPhone 13 Pro, since my old one had obvious issues. Did the iPhone transfer 01/22. All my apps came back and the transfer was perfect, until my Tik Tok app decided to be FOREVER in the Black Widget “Waiting…” mode to this day, and honestly probably until they figure this out, if they ever do. Just an FYI for anyone who did have Tik Tok on their old phone, the app will NOT transfer over, even if you DID have it downloaded on your phone prior to the transfer to the new phone. All it will show is a black widget, the ghost of Tik Tok, forever in “Waiting…”.

MF_23 wrote:

All my apps came back and the transfer was perfect, until my Tik Tok app decided to be FOREVER in the Black Widget “Waiting…” mode to this day, and honestly probably until they figure this out, if they ever do. Just an FYI for anyone who did have Tik Tok on their old phone, the app will NOT transfer over, even if you DID have it downloaded on your phone prior to the transfer to the new phone. All it will show is a black widget, the ghost of Tik Tok, forever in “Waiting…”.

Apps do not transfer from one phone to another. What transfers is the information about what apps you had on the old phone and which should be downloaded from the App Store to the new phone.

Apps are also not part of your backup or stored in iCloud.

Jazz57b wrote:

Can’t get back on TikTok, after deleting it by mistake

You are correct! Read the posts here and you will know why. You can also look at the section on the top of this page titled "Did you know?".

daniya116 wrote:

I want TikTok back

Sorry, you can’t. It’s banned in the U.S. If you are a U.S. citizen contact your Congressional representative. If you are not in the U.S. then it has not been banned.

for those who are wondering why you cannot download tiktok but you can use it if you have it, its because since it violated the rules, and was “banned”, its now off limits on the app store for further purchase. adding tiktok back into the app store for now would be illegal and break the terms of service from the app store and google play store, because it was identified for spying and breaking the law, so now its a private app, those who have it can use it. dont worry, you can still use it on your phone, type up tiktok.com/us-landing to use the website.

This is legit not fair I did the same and a few hours later people where able to use it again, i don’t care if it stops working after a while. Put tik tok back in the App Store. At this point this is so lame and unnecessary.

“ tik tok addiction” is actually insane why be rude, people are just dissatisfied with what has happened, the new law has taken away the coping space for most people to share ideas of course they’ll try to find a different way to express themselves?

exvzi wrote:

for those who are wondering why you cannot download tiktok but you can use it if you have it, its because since it violated the rules, and was “banned”, its now off limits on the app store for further purchase.

Specifically, the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act", whose text you can find in Division H of Public Law 118–50 (118th Congress) .

This isn't an Apple or Google "rule". It's U.S. law, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. I believe that it became law in April 2024, but that Congress wrote it so that the ban did not kick in until many months later. I believe that the idea was to give ByteDance, Ltd. and TikTok a chance to divest TikTok from Chinese Government control so that TikTok would not be banned at all. But ByteDance, Ltd. and TikTok did not take that opportunity.

It looks as though the legal definitions of a "covered company" and a "foreign adversary controlled application" would cover any sufficiently popular social media application or website that is controlled in a direct or indirect fashion by China, North Korea, Russia, or Iran. (This law cross-references a list of adversaries in another law.).

Because Congress wrote the law with TikTok in mind, the law also calls out ByteDance, Ltd. and TikTok by name.

Omar065 wrote:

Unable to reinstall TikTok app after deletion

And you won’t be able to because it is now banned in the U.S. Contrary to the rumor mill TikTok has NOT been unbanned and is no longer available in the Apple App Store or the Google Play store if you are an Android user.

I deleted tiktok app by a mistake today and I went on the Apple Store to see if I can download it back and it wasn’t there. I just want my TikTok back, so can Apple put TikTok back in the Apple Store please for the US. Thank you.