Restoring TikTok isn’t without risk for Apple and Google, legal experts warn, especially if the executive order faces legal challenges. Vice President JD Vance is charged with brokering a

The law requires TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. assets in order to continue operating in the U.S. While the law only mandated that ByteDance remove TikTok from app stores in the U.S. if it failed to meet the sale deadline, company executives decided to shut down the app entirely.