TIKTOK suffered a mysterious outage causing the app to crash on Thursday.
Confused users of the popular video sharing app flocked to Twitter to complain about the issue.
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According to the Down Detector site, there was a surge in reports of TikTok being down little after 10am BST / 5am ET.
The app would crash as soon as fans attempted to open it.
Others reported seeing nothing but a loading screen appear.
The strange bug seems to have been fixed now but TikTok is yet to reveal the cause behind it.
“Is TikTok down now cause I can’t seem to open it properly,” one user said at the time.
“TikTok is currently down everyone!” another wrote.
“Not sure why but hopefully it’s back up soon!”
Reports from people flooded in across the world, including those in the UK and US, causing it to be the second highest trending topic on Twitter at one point.
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A quick test by The Sun suggested that the issue may be linked to the recent iOS 16 update, though TikTok nor Apple has confirmed this.
TikTok crashed on two iPhones with the iOS 16 update installed but the app loaded fine on a third iPhone with the older version of iOS installed.
We also tried it on an Android smartphone and it loaded without any problems.
The platform continued to work as normal on desktop as well.
TikTok has been approached by The Sun for comment.
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