Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling phones with the social media app preloaded on them for thousands of dollars online. China-based parent company ByteDance voluntarily shut down the TIkTok app in the U.

After a brief ban for U.S. users, TikTok returned, but the user experience is still not completely what it once was. Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that delayed

People are listing phones preloaded with TikTok for tens of thousands of dollars on eBay, Facebook marketplace and other online storefronts.

For TikTok to continue to be available in the U.S., ByteDance must either sell to a U.S.-based buyer, or the Trump administration will need to pass a new law to overturn the previous one. The latter is an unlikely scenario given the broad bipartisan support the current legislation received in Congress.

Since TikTok was pulled off app stores in the U.S., people are selling their phones with TikTok downloaded. But it's not as easy as it looks.

The TikTok app is still not available in Google Play or Apple's App Store despite Trump's order halting the ban. Here's what's happening.

Some iPhones with the TikTok app, which is currently unavailable in the Apple and Google app stores, are fetching big bucks on eBay in the wake of the video-sharing app's brief ban in the United States.

If you still have TikTok installed on your phone, you might be able to make a few thousand dollars by listing it on eBay.

Business Insider's scan of platforms like eBay and Facebook Marketplace showed hundreds of listings touting phones with TikTok and CapCut installed.

On eBay, smartphones with TikTok still installed fetch hundreds to thousands of dollars, with one iPhone 16 Pro Max with the app is going for $5,000 and another iPhone 16 Plus asking for over $3,000.

Social media app TikTok briefly went dark in the U.S. last weekend due to a federal government tussle over its ownership. It’s since come back online, though the app itself cannot be downloaded from Google or Apple app stores.