The TikTok app is still not available in Google Play or Apple's App Store despite Trump's order halting the ban. Here's what's happening.
Some cell phone users didn’t delete the TikTok app from their devices during its short ban in the U.S. Now, it appears they may be hoping to cash in by selling their phones.
Bay sellers are listing iPhones with TikTok pre-installed for thousands of dollars as users scramble to access the app after a U.S. app store ban.
Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling phones with the social media app preloaded on them for thousands of dollars online. China-based parent company ByteDance voluntarily shut down the TIkTok app in the U.
After a brief ban for U.S. users, TikTok returned, but the user experience is still not completely what it once was. Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that delayed
People are listing phones preloaded with TikTok for tens of thousands of dollars on eBay, Facebook marketplace and other online storefronts.
For TikTok to continue to be available in the U.S., ByteDance must either sell to a U.S.-based buyer, or the Trump administration will need to pass a new law to overturn the previous one. The latter is an unlikely scenario given the broad bipartisan support the current legislation received in Congress.
Since TikTok was pulled off app stores in the U.S., people are selling their phones with TikTok downloaded. But it's not as easy as it looks.
Some iPhones with the TikTok app, which is currently unavailable in the Apple and Google app stores, are fetching big bucks on eBay in the wake of the video-sharing app's brief ban in the United States.
If you still have TikTok installed on your phone, you might be able to make a few thousand dollars by listing it on eBay.
Business Insider's scan of platforms like eBay and Facebook Marketplace showed hundreds of listings touting phones with TikTok and CapCut installed.