Twenty-six days after being banned from the US App stores, Tiktok returned to the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. Apple and Google brought back the video app of Chinese possession after receiving a letter from US Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure the companies that they would not be fined because they offered it, Bloomberg the first time Thursday reported.

Google confirmed to Wired that it brought back tiktok, but did not expand on reason immediately. Apple, Tiktok and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Bondi was sworn in office last week.

The return closes for a few weeks for tapping. The platform disappeared from the US App stores and on January 19, hours before the ban came into effect, dark for users nationwide. It came back alive later that day after the drivers of Tiktok received their own insurance from then president’s election Donald Trump that he would provide more time for a resolution. If you had the app on your phone, it normally functioned by the same afternoon.

After Trump held office on January 20, one of his first executive orders gave Tiktok a postponement. “I instruct the attorney -general not to intend to enforce the law for a period of 75 days from today to give my administration the opportunity to determine the appropriate course forward,” the order.

However, Google and Apple continued to keep tapping out of their market places, which means new users couldn’t install it. This is because the law that underlies the Tiktok ban – the protection of Americans from the Controlled Foreign opponents Act (Pafaca) – that US technical enterprises cannot spread any programs of BiteDance, the parent company of Tiktok , do not maintain or update. Those who do experience the prospect of solid fines. This means not just tapping, but a dozen programs, including popular offers such as Lemon8, Capcut and Marvel Snap, are not available for more than three weeks. (Those apps also returned to the app stores on Thursday.)

While tapping was not available, users who searched for the iOS app store were greeted by the following message: “Tiktok and other bite dance apps are not available in the country or region you are in.” A link “Learn More” sent users to a long article explaining why the app was gone and a reminder that they would not receive any updates, as long as the ban was in place. The Google Play Store, meanwhile, said: “Downloads for this app are interrupted by the current US legal requirements.” Searchers are aimed at competing apps, several of which have seen a hump in use.

Pafaca allows the president to extend the deadline for the ban of tiktok by 90 days if he certifies to the congress that ‘significant progress’ has been entered into to an agreement to sell the app to a non-Chinese company.

Trump suggested that Trump suggested that the US could have 50 percent ownership of Tiktok without specifying what he meant. The president allegedly embarked on vice president JD Vance recently to lead the negotiations between bite dance and potential buyers. One reported scenario would involve Oracle and a group of other investors who control the platform.