Hours after the current ownership of TikTok cited President-elect Donald Trump as their only hope, the incoming president stepped up to the plate for the embattled app. In a post to Truth Social early Sunday,

TikTok became unavailable for users in the U.S. on Saturday, before a ban on the popular social media platform officially went into effect.

In a little more than 12 hours after TikTok went dark in the U.S., the platform is "in the process of restoring service," the company announced on X.

The popular social media app went dark for millions of users Saturday night. The Chinese-owned app has been banned by federal officials.

TikTok said it will be forced to go dark on January 19, the day the ban is set to take effect, without more assurances it won't be enforced.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he plans to uphold the law around the TikTok ban in America. Johnson joined NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, where he weighed in on the overnight social media blackout when the popular app was no longer accessible in the United States.

President-elect Trump said Sunday he will issue an executive order to postpone the ban on TikTok and give its Chinese-based company ByteDance more time to divest from the platform. “I’m

"We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation," the President-elect tells Kristen Welker in a phone interview

The president-elect Sunday pledged an executive order, hours into his second term, returning access for American users, at least temporarily.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks with ‘Meet the Press’ Moderator Kristen Welker about his inaugural address — the first one to take place indoors since 1985.

NBC's Kristen Welker spoke exclusively with President-Elect Trump ahead of his inauguration about his plans for his first days in office.