Americans have limited access to the TikTok app due to nationwide restrictions. As a result, offers for iPhones with TikTok already installed have started to appear, with some prices being downright surreal.

As for Apple’s unprecedented action, this was spotted by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in a post on X, who pointed out that Apple issued a support document about TikTok, titled “About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. Apps in the United States.”

TikTok is currently not available in the US App Store, despite service being restored for users who have it already downloaded. Here’s why.

TikTok has essentially warned that it will “go dark” in the U.S., given that service providers underpinning the platform won’t be able to continue doing so lawfully. This might be over soon. TikTok is hopeful,

CapCut is a free video-editing platform created, owned and operated by ByteDance. It was launched in the U.S. in 2020. It was the second most downloaded photo and video app in the Apple App Store after Instagram, according to USA Today.

Jimmy Donaldson — better known online as MrBeast — isn’t in the TikTok bidding race just yet, according to a representative for the YouTube star.

Due to this, eBay users believe having the app installed drastically increases the value of their iPhones, listing them for sale at these high prices. There have been sales on these phones, recently an iPhone 14 Pro Max with the app installed sold for $2,500, with others also being sold near those prices.

The son of former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama, Sharaf Mahama, has once again shown his compassion by giving a brand-new iPhone to a well-known TikTok singer. Social media users have praised and admired Sharaf,

TikTok returns for longtime users after a brief shutdown, but Apple and Google app stores keep new downloads on hold amid ongoing national security concerns.

Americans have limited access to the TikTok app due to nationwide restrictions. As a result, offers for iPhones with TikTok installed have started appearing — with some prices reaching downright surreal levels.

Three days after ByteDance's TikTok went dark and then was quickly revived in the United States, users who deleted the app were anxiously checking iPhone and Android devices to find it still unavailable to be downloaded again.