After the Supreme Court and Biden administration declined to step in, TikTok shut down its app on Saturday night. Trump says he'll issue an executive order to delay its implementation.

Barely more than 12 hours after TikTok went dark in the United States, the video-sharing app is coming back online. “In agreement with our service

The United States of America has officially banned TikTok and removed it from app stores like Google Play Store and Apple Store. SA clapped for the ban.

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TikTok was taken down from US app stores just hours before the January 19 deadline, with app users getting notified of the shutdown. There is some hope that President-elect Trump may reinstate TikTok temporarily following his inauguration on January 20, 2025.

TikTok has returned to American app stores and resumed its service in the US after temporarily going off on Saturday amidst an expected federal ban.

On Saturday, both Apple and Google took the significant step of removing TikTok from their app stores, marking the culmination of a long-running legal saga.

That was fast. TikTok is 'in the process of restoring service' after Trump said app stores and other providers won't be penalized for hosting the app. It's still not available in the app stores, though.

TikTok said Sunday it was restoring service to users in the United States just hours after the popular video-sharing platform went dark in response to a federal ban, which President-elect Donald Trump said he would try to pause by executive order on his first day in office.

While his party's leader has warmed to TikTok, Cotton emerged Sunday to oppose Trump on throwing a lifeline to a platform that has been categorized as spyware.