TikTok returned to the Apple and Google app stores Thursday night, weeks after being pulled down in the wake of a US ban of the popular social media app that technically took effect in January. Both Apple and Google had pulled the app from its stores on Jan.

The law requires TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its U.S. assets in order to continue operating in the U.S. While the law only mandated that ByteDance remove TikTok from app stores in the U.S. if it failed to meet the sale deadline, company executives decided to shut down the app entirely.