TikTok’s shutdown also blocks non-US users

Tik Tok US shutdown Last night appears to be affecting users outside the country as well. People took to social media in the hours that followed, complaining about their inability to access the app even though they live in countries other than the United States, and it’s not always clear why.

In some cases, the problem appears to be a VPN that routes traffic through the United States. One user on Reddit, Those who say they reside in the UK saw the message that was supposed to only display in the US overnight and found that a quick change of location in their VPN app fixed the issue:

I received this message myself in the UK and immediately thought to check my VPN, yes it was going through Miami as soon as I changed that TikTok was fine.

This doesn’t work in all cases, though. The original creator From this thread He also claims to live in the UK, but they say they don’t use a VPN. Instead, they suspect that the problem is their very existence Living in the United States When they created their main account. Other people who signed up in the US have also reported that they cannot access the app, even though they now live in countries like Canada, Germany, Australia, Greeceand Poland.

But some users, who call their site UK, Canadaand AustraliaLet’s assume they didn’t set up their accounts in the US — and in some cases, they weren’t there at all. However, others complain that the app is banned for them in countries like Morocco or Ireland. One user, who says he is Mozambique, believes it is because he was getting around his country’s monetization laws by setting his account region to the US.

TikTok did not immediately respond to our request for comment on what might cause people living outside the US to lose access.