Apple and Google Restoure Tiktok to Application Stores in the US.

Apple and Google restored Tiktok to their American application stores on Thursday night, several weeks after eliminating the Chinese property video platform to comply with a new law that prohibited it in the country.

Last month, President Trump tried to stop the application of Tiktok's ban with an executive order. But Apple and Google were reluctant to bring Tiktok back until they were sure they were not violating the law.

Apple and Google had recently received letters from the Department of Justice by assuring them that they would not face fines for taking Tiktok in their application stores, they said that two people with knowledge of communications, who were not authorized to speak publicly. The executive order that Mr. Trump signed last month requested that “written orientation” be sent.

The law, signed last year by President Joseph R. Biden, had asked the parent company of Tiktok, Bytedance, to sell the application to a non -Chinese owner before January 19. threat. The law was addressed to the operators of the application store and the Internet accommodation companies with pronounced financial sanctions if they distributed or kept Tiktok.

Mr. Trump's executive order, which told the Department of Justice that he abstracts the law for 75 days while his administration followed a resolution, caused confusion among technology companies. While Apple and Google kept Tiktok out of their application stores, companies such as Oracle, which provided technological support for the application for application, resumed working with it after a brief closure in January.

Apple and Google did not comment beyond saying that they had restored the application. Tiktok and a spokesman for the Department of Justice declined to comment.

Tiktok's return to application stores means that he has now operated as always did in the United States. That has raised questions about whether Trump is respecting the rule of law or putting the executive branch first, and some experts say that the conflict represents the beginnings of a constitutional crisis. The Supreme Court unanimously confirmed the law last month.

“If we reach 75 days without an agreement and Trump says we will continue not doing it, we will be in a crisis,” said Lindsay Gorman, managing director of the technology Program of the German Fund Marshall and a former technological advisor of the Biden Administration. “Then we are reaching bigger problems than Tiktok but about the relationship between the executive and legislative branches.”

On Thursday, Trump suggested that he could extend his breach of the law that prohibits Tiktok.

“I have 90 days of approximately two weeks ago, and I am sure that it can be extended, but let's see,” he said, seem to defend the period of time established in his executive order. “We have many people interested in Tiktok.”

Legislators and intelligence officials have argued for a long time that the Bytedance could deliver data from US users, such as location information, Beijing. They have also claimed that China could use Tiktok content recommendations to boost erroneous information.

Tiktok has rejected such concerns and said there was no public evidence that no situation had occurred in the United States.

Since the law entered into force last month, Tiktok, who claims 170 million US users, has not been largely affected in US phones who had already downloaded the application. Even so, some Tiktok creators have complained about failures that believed they were linked to the absence of application stores. That includes problems with live broadcast and digital currencies in Tiktok that users can buy and give to the creators they like.

Trump promised to save Tiktok during his campaign and has said that he will help orchestrate an agreement for the company that will keep him in the United States. But it is not clear how your administration will do it under the limitations of the law, which requires a sale and says that a person or people in China cannot maintain, directly or indirectly, more than 20 percent of Tiktok.

Bytedance has said for years that he cannot sell the application, partly because the Chinese government would not allow the export of Tiktok's so important algorithm.

On Tuesday, Tiktok executives told the creators in an informative call that was optimistic that Apple and Google soon would restore the application, said H. Lee Justine, a creator and author of Tiktok, who was on the call.

“They said the administration had given them much information that they would not be penalized and that they really had the hope that any day they would put it in application stores again,” he said in an interview. “Very hope awaits me that they felt that they could do this because, hopefully, this means that in the long term there will be no problems and this will work.”

David McCabe Contributed reports.