(Yicai) Feb. 14 -- Google and Apple restored TikTok to their app stores in the US after President Donald Trump delayed the ban on the short video platform owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance and confirmed there would be no fines for distributing or maintaining the app.

TikTok can be downloaded from the US versions of Google Play and the App Store, Yicai found today. ByteDance's overseas creative video editing and image design tool CapCut has also returned to the App Store.

Last April, then US President Joe Biden signed a bill requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese firm or be blocked in the country due to national security concerns by Jan. 19. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the sell or block bill on Jan. 17, with Apple and Google removing TikTok from their local app stores to comply with the law two days later.

On Jan. 20, Trump issued an executive order instructing the attorney general to take no action to enforce the sell or block bill for 75 days from that day so that the administration has the opportunity to determine the appropriate direction. In addition, he proposed a 50/50 US ownership of TikTok.

"I would like the United States to have a 50 percent ownership position in a joint venture," Trump noted. "By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands, and allow it to say up."

Editor: Martin Kadiev