Unable to reinstall TikTok after deletion

TikTok is currently blocked in the US due by law:

About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States - Apple Support

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/technology/tiktok-ban-sale-supreme-court.html

It has NOT been unbanned -- yet:

https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-we-know-tiktok.html

It may take you more time than a TikTok video to actually read those articles, but you have time for that now that TikTok is unavailable so please take more than a few seconds to fully understand the issue.

Per the NYT article, "the law penalizes app stores, like Apple and Google, and other internet companies, like Oracle, for distributing or updating any TikTok content". Therefore, TikTok is currently unavailable on the Apple app store and Google app store. Apple, nor anyone on this community change that. The US Supreme Court recently upheld the ban and therefore only the US Congress can change the law at this point.

While you are at it, this may be a worthy read:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/well/tiktok-addiction-ban.html

Hello~ Please see this link for Apple’s stance…

About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States - Apple Support

Speculation is not supported here in these forums.

~Katana-San~

Patience.

In the meantime, access the website using your browser.

It will require reading and the answer is not in video format. You can figure it out though and you will be fine. You apparently survived without it when you deleted it.