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TikTok’s traffic is almost back to normal despite its delayed return to US app stores, according to Cloudflare Radar data seen by CNBC. The “DNS traffic for TikTok-related domains” is around 10 percent lower than the levels before its abrupt shutdown, David Belson, Cloudflare’s head of data insight, told CNBC.
To compare, TikTok’s traffic dipped as much as 85 percent when the app went dark in response to the US divest-or-ban law, Cloudflare reported at the time. TikTok started coming back online on January 19th, but the app has remained unavailable on Google Play and the Apple App Store ever since.
The shutdown also affected other apps owned by TikTok parent company ByteDance, including Marvel Snap, CapCut, and Lemon8. Even though all three apps have restored their services in the US, they aren’t available in app stores, either — and there’s no indication when they might return. Many users unable to download the apps have resorted to methods like using a VPN or changing their Apple ID region to Canada in an attempt to get them back.
President Donald Trump has since signed an executive order delaying TikTok’s ban, but the app still isn’t in the clear just yet. That legal uncertainty might be what’s making Apple and Google hesitant to bring TikTok and other ByteDance-owned apps back to their stores.
