Court temporarily blocks Trump order banning TikTok from US app stores

Judge grants injunction sought by app's owner ByteDance to let it remain available for download

TikTok has been granted a last-minute reprieve from Donald Trump's executive order banning the service from US app stores, after a judge in Washington DC temporarily blocked the ban from taking effect on Sunday evening.

The order, which was due to take effect at one minute to midnight, was the first step towards banning TikTok entirely within the US. It would have required Apple and Google to remove the service from their respective app stores, preventing new users from downloading it, but would not have stopped existing TikTokers from continuing to access the app on their own devices.