Here are the letters that let Apple and Google ignore the TikTok ban

More than six months after Tiktok’s ban, we still don’t know exactly what his fate in the United States. But we have a new look at the legal quarrels that allowed Apple and Google and other platforms to continue the application support.

If you remember, Tiktok was only “banned” for hours before president Donald Trump took office in January and from the law. The application service was immediately recovered on January 19, 2025, but the application is not to Apple and Google app stores until February 13. At that time, reporting suggested that companies had remaining concerns about the potential responsibility of committing the Americans Protection Law from foreign debit applications.

Again in February, Intuition Others stated that the Ministry of Justice had given “assurances” to technology platforms that will not be punished for violating the law. Now, we know exactly what the Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi told the facilities where the messages sent to Apple, Google, Amazon, Oracle and other companies have been published. The messages were revealed in the request of the Freedom of Information Law submitted by Tony Tan, a software engineer and shareholder of Google The Search Giant to not comply with the Tiktok ban.

In a letter dated January 30, 2025, Bondi told Apple and Google that “the president decided that the sudden closure of the Tiktok platform would interfere with the implementation of the president’s constitutional duties for national security and foreign affairs of the United States.” He continues to mention that Apple and Google “may continue to provide services to Tiktok … without incurring any legal responsibility.”

He followed later on April 5, 2025 (The next day of Trump gave Techkk for 75 days), Bondi told the companies that “the Ministry of Justice is also irreversibly in which any claims may have the United States against it for” behavior “banned in the covered period under the covered period, taking over the covered period under the covered period, and taking it.

The letters can be read completely below.

The law has now been stopped since Trump took office. Earlier this week, details of the new Tiktok ownership could have been published in “About two weeks”.