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

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.

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.

As technology and politics get ever more intertwined, it's time to discuss iPhone 17 rumors, TikTok changes, and the Mac mini as a fashion accessory.

On eBay, used iPhones with the TikTok app still installed are being listed for thousands to millions of dollars.

TikTok being banned across the United States has created a new market on eBay for smartphones that already have the app installed.

As first spotted by Wired, there are currently about 9,000 eBay item listings for various smartphones that already have TikTok installed. There’s a wide array of devices depending on the preferred make,

Since TikTok was pulled off app stores in the U.S., people are selling their phones with TikTok downloaded. But it's not as easy as it looks.

Mac notes that for iPhone users, buying a used phone with TikTok isn’t the worst way to go. If the seller has TikTok downloaded, those apps should remain in place when the b

TikTok is still unavailable on Apple's and Google's respective app stores after it was removed last weekend. The app briefly went dark on Saturday, and while

South Africans sided with a Mzansi man who promoted his new favourite device and compared it to his old iPhone. He claimed to use his iOS device for Apple Pay.