Will TikTok stop working after the ban comes into effect?
Even if the ban goes into effect, that doesn't mean TikTok will simply stop working, nor will the app be automatically deleted from your phone.
If you already have the app on your phone, you can continue scrolling and uploading content. However, the app is no longer available for download from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store in the United States, and you will not be able to install any updates, including security upgrades or bug fixes, beyond the version of the app you own as of March 18th . January.
Since ByteDance can no longer release updates, the app becomes increasingly difficult to use, if not immediately unusable.
“The apps will start to decay and rot,” said the Internet Society technologist Joseph Lorenzo Hall said Wired, “as either services stop working, things like content distribution networks, or services that feel they can't take the risk of ambiguity in language or possible enforcement by the new administration.”
