TikTok app logo is seen in this illustration taken, Aug. 22, 2022. Dado Ruvic/Reuters, FILE Apple and Google restored TikTok to their app stores on Thursday after the popular social media app ...

The Chinese-owned app was removed from the stores after it briefly shut down in the U.S. to abide by a law that required TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to divest from the platform or face a ...

Google and Apple received letters from multiple states' attorneys general demanding documents related to their hosting of TikTok and other Chinese-owned apps on their app stores.

TikTok’s future in the United States has been under threat for years. President Donald Trump tried banning the app during his first term in 2020, arguing it posed a risk to national security ...

Apple and Google have the technical, organizational and ethical skills to make this work. As a result, parents can be true partners, not just viewers, in guiding their children’s digital choices.

It’s unclear if ByteDance and Chinese President Xi Jinping would agree to a total divestment that complies with the law since Beijing deems TikTok’s algorithms a state secret. Mr.