TikTok reportedly stays on App Store after assurance from Attorney General Pam Bondi

In this photo illustration, the logo of TikTok is displayed on a smartphone screen on April 5, 2025 in Shanghai, China. Apple will keep ByteDance-owned TikTok on its App Store for at least 75 more days after receiving assurances from Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to a report from Bloomberg News. This comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to extend the TikTok ban deadline for the second time. TikTok will be banned in the U.S. unless China's ByteDance sells its U.S. operations under a national security law signed by former President Joe Biden in April 2024. AG Bondi wrote in a letter to Apple that the company should act in accordance with Trump's deadline extension and that it would not be penalized for hosting the platform, according to unnamed sources cited in the report. Apple did not respond to a request for comment. After TikTok went briefly offline for U.S. users in January following the initial ban deadline, it remained unavailable for do ... Read full article.