Apple users cannot get the social media platform as a direct download because the iOS platform does not permit sideloading.

If the law does go into effect Tik Tok will not cease to exist, but it will be illegal to download off of the app store, meaning you can use the app as long as it is already on your phone.

Since its launch in 2016, video-sharing app Tik Tok – known as Douyin on the mainland ... the majority of teenagers would not go out of their way to do so. “There is a perceived problem ...