This has two knock-on effects that are much longer term. First, we now know that a U.S. TikTok ban will be difficult to bypass if it comes back — and the same will be true for any other Chinese (or other) app banned in the same way. There are some options, as I reported over the weekend, but none of them are especially compelling.

APKMirror, a popular destination for Android users to safely sideload apps on their smartphones, is blocking downloads of TikTok and Lemon8, citing the new law in the U.S. Interestingly, other TikTok apps are not blocked,

TikTok was briefly suspended on January 19. It was, however, restored the following day. Despite this, people are still unable to download the app. Anybody attempting to upgrade or download the app within the last week has encountered app stores not allowing them to do so.

Updated January 19th as service was being restored.

Three days after ByteDance's TikTok went dark and then was quickly revived in the United States, users who deleted the app were anxiously checking iPhone and Android devices to find it still unavailable to be downloaded again.

In the days leading up to the TikTok ban in the U.S. on Sunday, U.S. users flooded the Chinese app RedNote, which offered a similar experience to their

TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., the result of a federal law that bans the popular social media app for millions of Americans.

To download a video on an Android or iPhone, go to your TikTok profile page, select a clip, tap the three-dot menu icon on the right side of the screen and tap Save Video. You can then email it to yourself, upload it to Google Drive (or another cloud ...

X has started expanding its dedicated vertical video feed to users outside the U.S., TechCrunch has exclusively learned and confirmed with the company.

In today's Tech Bytes, ABC's Andrew Dimbert talks about Google's new android security feature. It's meant to prevent phone thieves from accessing your digital accounts.

Samsung’s new phones will almost certainly be the most popular Android phones of 2025. They’ll probably also be among the best Android phones of 2025. And yet the Unpacked event this week felt like one of the most boring phone