Users with TikTok on their iPhone after Apple removed it from the app store should refrain from doing this major thing.

Whether TikTok can be downloaded on a new phone depends on your device, as it’s currently removed from app stores. Details.

Phones with TikTok already downloaded are being listed for eye-watering sums as the social media platform remains absent from app stores.

Phones are going for thousands of dollars on online storefronts after Apple and Google took down ByteDance platforms.

The iPhone 15 and 16 models generally sell for between $1,200 and $1,500 on eBay. When the app was first banned iPhones with TikTok installed were listed for as much as $1 million during the app's 14 hour blackout, Ukrainian technology news outlet ITC reported.

So, as this new Chinese AI app continues its ride atop Apple’s App Store, the question is whether it’s safe to install and use on your iPhone. And here there are some real parallels with TikTok. It’s not the app that’s the issue — it’s what the platform behind the app does with your data that matters.

Phones that still have TikTok installed on them are fetching high prices on eBay, days after the social media platform's short-lived ban in the United States. The TikTok app is currently unavailable in the Apple App Store — making it available only to those who previously installed the app before its recent ban.

During the outage, even users who had previously downloaded TikTok were unable to access the app. While service has since been restored, the app remains unavailable for download in U.S.-based app stores, leaving new users unable to access it.

This has two knock-on effects that are much longer term. First, we now know that a U.S. TikTok ban will be difficult to bypass if it comes back — and the same will be true for any other Chinese (or other) app banned in the same way. There are some options, as I reported over the weekend, but none of them are especially compelling.

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