TikTok has been absent from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store since January. Now, it’s back. Here’s all you need to know.

The popular apps have unexpectedly returned to iOS and Android devices. You might want to download them while you can. ByteDance’s TikTok and CapCut apps are back in the Apple and Google app stores after having been absent from both for nearly a month.

The law requires TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. assets in order to continue operating in the U.S. While the law only mandated that ByteDance remove TikTok from app stores in the U.S. if it failed to meet the sale deadline, company executives decided to shut down the app entirely.