Apple keeps tapping check in its store after insurance from AG Bondi

(Bloomberg) – Apple Inc., after ensuring the Trump administration, holds tapping and other programs of BiteDance Ltd. for at least another 75 days on the US App Store. The iPhone manufacturer received a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi on Saturday in which the company said it should follow the executive order of President Donald Trump who will expand the break on a Tiktok ban in the US, according to people with knowledge of the case. A spokesman for Apple declined to comment. “The agreement requires more work to ensure that all necessary approvals are signed, and therefore I sign an executive order to keep tapping for 75 days running,” Trump said in a post on his truth social platform on Friday. In February, Apple Tiktok recovered to its App Store after receiving a similar letter from Bondi that gave the assurance of an executive order of January of Trump who initially interrupted the ban. Tiktok also remains available on Google Play, The Alphabet Inc. -Shop available on Android devices. A Google spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The latest expansion comes two days after US officials were nearby to obtain an agreement to create an American version of Tiktok that would be by US investors majority. The agreement had the blessing of the bite dance, but was trapped after Trump’s decision to set up rates on US trading partners, including charges that increased the total rate on Chinese imports to 54%. US lawmakers have accepted the original ban on the concern about Tiktok’s Chinese ownership, for fear that the popular app could be used to spy on US citizens. China requires its businesses to share data with the government on request. Trump has previously supported a ban, but has changed his position. “I think I have a warm place for tapping that I originally didn’t have,” he said when he signed the January order. Trump and other top officials reviewed a proposal from a consortium of US investors on Wednesday, including Oracle Corp., Blackstone Inc. And the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz who emerged as a top contender to buy Tiktok, according to two people familiar with the meeting. Under the potential arrangement, new investors from outside 50% of Tiktok’s US business would own in a unit that would be rinsed from BiteDance, Bloomberg News reports on Friday. The existing US investors from BiteDance would also own about 30% of the business, reducing the importance of the bite dance to just under 20%. More stories like these are available on Bloomberg.com © 2025 Bloomberg LP