TikTok's US shutdown It appears that last night's update is affecting users outside the country as well. Within hours, people took to social media to complain that they couldn't access the app, despite living in non-US countries, and it wasn't always clear why.
In some cases, the problem appears to be using a VPN that routes traffic through the US. A user on Reddit, Those who say they live in the UK saw the message that should have only appeared in the US overnight and found that a quick location change in their VPN app fixed it:
I got that message myself in UK, I immediately thought to check my VPN, yes it was going through Miami, when I changed TikTok was fine.
However, this does not work in all cases. original creator of that thread Also claim to be based in the UK, but say they were not using a VPN. Instead, they suspect that they were the problem. living in usa When they created their main account. Others who signed up in the US also report that they can't access the app, despite living in countries like the US Canada, Germany, Australia, GreeceAnd poland,
But some users who tell the name of their location the UK, CanadaAnd AustraliaSay they didn't create their account in the US – and in some cases, they never visited there. Still, others complain that the app is blocked for them in countries like these morocco Or irelandOne user, who says they are Mozambican, speculates that this happened because they broke their country's monetization laws by setting their account region to the US.
TikTok did not immediately respond to our request for comment on what might have caused people living outside the US to lose access.