TikTok has restored service in the U.S. less than 24 hours after its nationwide shutdown. On Sunday, Jan. 19, TikTok announced on X, via an official statement shared to its policy account, that it is "in the process of restoring service" to Americans after going dark the night prior .

TikTok shuts down in the US ahead of ban, but president-elect says he'll issue an executive order to bring it back once he takes office.

Trump announced the decision in a post on his Truth Social account as millions of TikTok users in the U.S. awoke to discover they could no longer access the TikTok app or platform. Google and Apple removed the app from their digital stores to comply with a federal law that required them to do so if TikTok parent company ByteDance didn't sell its U.

Millions of TikTok users in the United States are no longer able to watch videos on the social media platform as a federal ban on the immensely popular app takes effect.

Still, my guess is that everyone currently experiencing TikTok withdrawal won’t suffer for long. That’s because president-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on Monday, seems

The clock has officially run out for US TikTok users -- at least for now.Starting Saturday night on the East Coast, TikTok users in the US began receiving messages from TikTok telling them that the platform wasn't currently available to them due to the law banning it.