Apple and Google on Thursday evening restored TikTok to their respective app stores in the U.S., nearly a month after they removed the short video app following a national security law that banned , TikTok is once again available in Apple’s App Store in the United States after it was de-listed last month following a nationwide ban., TikTok’s recent ban and subsequent reinstatement in the United States — all in an agonizing 24 hours for TikTokers — has sparked an unexpected gold rush on eBay. iPhones with the TikTok app , TikTok, known in mainland China and Hong Kong [3] as Douyin (Chinese: 抖音; pinyin: Dǒuyīn; lit. 'Shaking Sound'), [4] is a social media and short-form online video platform owned by Chinese Internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which may range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. [5] It can be accessed through a mobile app or through its website. Since its , Used phones with TikTok already downloaded are going for a pretty penny as the app remains unavailable on third-party stores, while Trumps seeks an American buyer. Used phones preloaded with , TikTok has warned of a looming shutdown in just six days, as the Supreme Court is currently weighing the law that would ban the app..