TikTok Ban Update: November 2025

It’s been almost a year since that January TikTok ban was supposed to happen. Curious where things stand now? We’ve got you covered.

Here’s the background starting in June of this year:

In June, Trump once again delayed the TikTok ban deadline — giving it another 3-month extension, which meant TikTok should have been banned in September unless the app was sold by its Chinese owners. This marked the third time he chose not to enforce the ban, even though both political parties in Congress had agreed it was important for national security.

Lawmakers once said TikTok was a huge national security threat and even passed a law forcing ByteDance to sell the app or get banned in the U.S.

Today, as of November 2025, almost a year after the deadline, TikTok is still here — mostly because the Trump administration keeps extending the timeline and slowing down the process.

Most of the politicians who pushed for the ban are now staying quiet. Only one responded, saying Congress still hasn’t been told how Trump’s proposed deal would actually protect Americans.

Trump’s deal basically spins TikTok’s U.S. operations into a new company, but ByteDance would still own part of it and the U.S. version would license TikTok’s algorithm from China — which may not even meet the requirements of the law.

China might not approve the sale anyway, so the whole thing is still unclear.

Overall, Congress made a huge deal about banning TikTok, but now that Trump is delaying it, they aren’t pushing back — and the final deal may not actually cut TikTok off from China the way the law intended.

You can count on the Sircle team to keep you updated on where TikTok continues to stand.