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

On eBay, smartphones with TikTok still installed fetch hundreds to thousands of dollars, with one iPhone 16 Pro Max with the app is going for $5,000 and another iPhone 16 Plus asking for over $3,000.

As for Apple’s unprecedented action, this was spotted by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in a post on X, who pointed out that Apple issued a support document about TikTok, titled “About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. Apps in the United States.”

Fans are back with their iconic sense of humor as the news of TikTok standing on the verge of removal from the Apple App Store until it is sold to a buyer.

While the U.S. TikTok blackout may have lasted only hours, the app has still not made a return to the iPhone's App Store.

If you still have TikTok installed on your phone, you might be able to make a few thousand dollars by listing it on eBay.

Many people are listing iPhones with TikTok installed on eBay for thousands of dollars as the app remains absent on Google and Apple app stores.

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.

Don't have the TikTok app currently installed on your mobile device? It's best not to buy a high-price phone with it installed to get it.

Desperate sellers flood eBay with used iPhones preloaded with TikTok, asking up to $50,000 as US app ban chaos drives demand—and disbelief.

Used iPhones with TikTok installed on them are being listed for sale on eBay for thousands of dollars, as people try to cash in on the ban. One listing even asks $50,000 for an unlocked iPhone 12 Pro Max “with TikTok app.”