Google and Apple have not responded to multiple requests for comment on whether or not they will list TikTok in their app stores. If you search for TikTok on the App Store, you’ll see a message saying,

ByteDance restored TikTok service in the United States on Sunday night, but major tech companies like Apple and Google have yet to restore downloads of the app. With no way to update TikTok, app rot may soon set in.

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While TikTok is still functional for users who had it installed before the ban, those who deleted it can no longer re-download the app. Sellers are capitalising on this by listing phones with the app preinstalled,

Phones that still have TikTok installed on them are fetching high prices on eBay, days after the social media platform's short-lived ban in the United States. The TikTok app is currently unavailable in the Apple App Store — making it available only to those who previously installed the app before its recent ban.

The iPhone 15 and 16 models generally sell for between $1,200 and $1,500 on eBay. When the app was first banned iPhones with TikTok installed were listed for as much as $1 million during the app's 14 hour blackout, Ukrainian technology news outlet ITC reported.

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.

TikTok could still not be downloaded from the Apple and Google app stores in the U.S, even after President Trump's executive order.

Phones are going for thousands of dollars on online storefronts after Apple and Google took down ByteDance platforms.