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TikTok\u2019s US shutdown<\/a> last night appears to be affecting users outside the country as well. People have taken to social media in the hours since, complaining they can\u2019t access the app despite living in non-US countries, and it\u2019s not always clear why.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In some cases, the problem appears to be using a VPN that routes traffic through the US. One user on Reddit says they\u2019re based in the UK<\/a>, saw the message that\u2019s supposed to be displayed only in the US overnight, and found that a quick location change in their VPN app fixed it:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n I got that message myself in the UK I immediately thought to check my Vpn, yep it was going through Miami once I changed that TikTok is fine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n This doesn\u2019t work in all cases, though. The original creator of that thread<\/a> also claims to live in the UK, but they say they weren\u2019t using a VPN. Instead, they suspect the problem is that they were living in the US<\/a> when they created their main account. Other people who signed up in the US also report they can\u2019t access the app, despite now living in countries like Canada<\/a>, Germany<\/a>, Australia<\/a>, Greece<\/a>, and Poland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But some users, who name their location as the UK<\/a>, Canada<\/a>, and Australia<\/a>, say they didn\u2019t create their account in the US \u2014 and in some cases that they\u2019ve never been there at all. Still others complain that the app is blocked for them in countries like Morocco<\/a> or Ireland<\/a>. One user, who says they are Mozambican, speculates it\u2019s because they got around their country\u2019s monetization laws by setting their account region to the US.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n