How a TikTok ban would work – and why user workarounds won’t

App store providers are explicitly barred from distributing TikTok to US users, which means that Apple and Alphabet's Google will remove the app from their stores and will no longer distribute updates to fix bugs. — Reuters

Social media app TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, will be banned in the United States on Sunday unless a deal comes together to sell it to a US investor or the US Supreme Court intervenes.

The ban results from an April law signed by President Joe Biden and is the first time the United States has attempted to shut down access to an app with such a large user base – roughly 170 million domestic users.