TikTok’s time is up in the U.S. — at least for now. The popular social media app went dark late Saturday before a federal law to ban it took effect Sunday. But the possibility of at least a temporary reprieve from incoming President Donald Trump left TikTok’s ultimate fate up in the air.

App gives ultimatum it would ‘go dark’ for 170 million American users on Sunday - TikTok said the Biden administration must give the likes of Google and Apple reassurances that they won’t be punished,

Uncertainty over the app's future had sent users - mostly younger people - scrambling to alternatives including China-based RedNote.

In their mass migration to the Chinese app RedNote, social media users make a gleeful mockery of the American government.

Chinese social apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8 have soared to the top two spots on Apple's iPhone charts ahead of the U.S.'s impending TikTok ban.

TikTok could avoid a US ban at the last minute despite the Supreme Court ruling against the Chinese-owned app...

President-elect Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay enforcement of TikTok’s impending ban, arguing that his incoming administration is uniquely positioned to resolve the ongoing dispute between the app’s Chinese ownership and U.S. national security concerns.

That decision shifts the focus to whether President-elect Donald Trump can intervene after he takes office on Monday.

The Supreme Court rejected TikTok's appeal to halt a law banning the app in the U.S. unless Chinese parent ByteDance sells its stake by Jan. 19.

TikTok is to be banned in the US from Sunday if it is not sold by its Chinese parent company, the Supreme Court has ruled. However, President Joe Biden has said he will not enforce the ban for the few remaining hours he is in office, leaving it up to his successor Donald Trump to decide what to do when he enters the White House on Monday.

The fate of 170 million TikTok users is now in the hands of President-elect Donald Trump.On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law requiring TikTok to be sold to a U.S. company or banned by Sunday,

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday, Jan. 17, to uphold a law that would ban the app for the 170 million people who use the app in the U.S. The ruling lines up with decisions other courts have made and sets up the ban to go into effect on Sunday, Jan. 19.