Unable to reinstall TikTok app after deletion

Hello~ Apple is not here …so the only people that you’re calling jerks are your fellow forum members who volunteer here each day and do our very best to help you…now somehow that seems unfair. As a side note Apple isn’t being jerks either…just following the law. Scroll up to the top and read the “Did you know”?…it explains.

~Katana-San~

sammorris123 wrote:

I just got an insurance replacement phone, and after backing all my stuff into the cloud, and redownloading it on my new phone. It decided to not save all of my passwords, along as my tictok app. Now whenever I try and open tictok, it Telles me that it's not available. While I didn't make the mistake of uninstalling tictok, I still have to face the penalties.

Scroll to the top of this page and read the Did You Know message.

mohelsanafawy wrote:

I just deleted the tik tok app because everyone’s started working again and was going to redownload it and it won’t show up on the Apple Store to redownload even though I have a tik tok account

I am surprised you do not know the reason why after reading the posts here. Start on page 1, there really is no need to explain it again. There is even a section on the top of this page titled "Did you know?".

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?".

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.

Hello~ Rude? Not reading Apple’s stance at the top of this very page is rude…

💡 Did you know?

TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps are no longer available in the United States, and visitors to the United States might have limited access to features. Learn more <<< Click here. Please take a moment to to read this.

~Katana-San~

Omar065 wrote:

Unable to reinstall TikTok app after deletion

I advise you read my latest User Tip which explicitly explains the TikTok ban, why you cannot download it and what it means for the future of the app.

Understanding the TikTok Ban and Why You … - Apple Community

nana1231 wrote:

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.

Understanding the TikTok Ban and Why You … - Apple Community

I deleted TikTok after it was banned and on the Apple Store it says it’s unable to connect in this region and a lot of other people deleted it after it was banned and we really want it back and nobody knew if you deleted it you couldn’t get it back so that’s not fair to us who deleted it And we didn’t know we couldn’t get it back after it was deleted on the Apple Store,so that’s not fair

jahlil96 wrote:

I deleted TikTok on accident and I can't get it back and I was wondering if I can ask y'all if I could get TikTok back because it won't let me install back and everyone has TikTok back instead of me

The answer to that is simple and has been provided here many, many, many times. The answer is no. The law that congress passed to place fines on Apple and Google for allowing any downloads has NOT been repealed. The Supreme Court has not even ruled whether an Executive Order could remove those fines. So, after deletion, all you are left with is using the web version of TikTok.

Whogot wrote:

Can y’all please put TikTok back cause I thought that it would be gone forever so can yall please put it back

Please read my User Tip fully explaining the TikTok ban situation:

Understanding the TikTok Ban and Why You Cannot Download It

TikTokissue wrote:

I bought the new iPhone and it transferred the app but I can’t use it. So I am just going to return the phone. I suggest other people do the same if they can

When you do a Quick Start, I believe that would transfer the old phone's data, but not the apps. I have not used Quick Start, but if the new phone has a TikTok app icon, my. guess would be that it represents an offloaded app. Assuming that you are in the U.S., the app was not distributed to your new phone, and U.S. law prohibits it from being distributed to the new phone.

ChristyJulien wrote:

I want TikTok back

Have ByteDance, Ltd. and TikTok carried out the necessary steps to divest TikTok from direct or indirect Chinese Government control, so that this "foreign adversary controlled application" is no longer an application which the U.S. Congress considers to be a national security risk?

Has the Congress changed their minds about the law – and passed another law to repeal or change the first one?

If neither has happened, how does posting a "me too" reply to a 40+ page thread change anything? Apple is not in charge of ByteDance, Ltd. and TikTok; nor is Apple in charge of the U.S. Government.

It would make more sense to direct "I want TikTok back" to ByteDance, Ltd. and TikTok (i.e., to encourage them to separate TikTok from Chinese government control), or to your Senators and Representative in Congress.

Re: “I didn’t delete the app at all. I went to get on TikTok and it showed that the app needed to be updated. I went to update and that’s when I got the “Unable to reinstall TikTok. No longer available in the APP store”. What is going on? Help.”

U.S. law prohibits anyone from providing services to distribute, maintain, or update the TikTok app in the U.S.. if the consequence is that your copy of the TikTok app won’t work because it is outdated, that is how the legal cookie crumbles.

Have any of you tried the TikTok website. Yes for real. www.TikTok.com. Login with your username and password. Voila!! 45 pages and no one tried the good old interwebs. All 45 pages of you are welcome. Enjoy.