On January 19, we still have President Biden, and on January 19, as I understand it, we shut down.” With these words—foreshadowing the final ban of the TikTok app in the United States—Noel Francisco,

Starting Sunday, if the company is not sold, app stores and cloud providers who continue to host it will face billions of dollars in fines.

President-elect Donald Trump vowed to issue an executive order on Monday to postpone the ban on TikTok from going into effect.

Users in the U.S. who opened the app were greeted with a message that read, "Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now."

The high court doesn't announce which opinions it is releasing. But the justices are up against a Sunday deadline for TikTok to cut ties with China.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew thanked Donald Trump for his commitment to "finding a solution" that keeps TikTok available in the U.S. after the ruling.

In an unanimous ruling handed down on Friday morning, January 17 in TikTok v. Merrick B. Garland, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a TikTok ban that is scheduled to go into effect on Sunday, January 19 unless ByteDance — the video sharing platform's owner in Mainland China — divests itself.

The Supreme Court said it may announce opinions on Friday, a last-minute addition that comes just two days before a law that would ban TikTok is set to go into effect.

The Supreme Court upheld a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States. Here's what to know about the potential ban.

Looming over the Supreme Court's TikTok decision is what could happen after Donald Trump takes office. Trump promised to "save" the popular platform.

TikTok resumed operations in the United States on Sunday after President-elect Donald J. Trump announced plans to issue an executive order delaying a federal ban on the app. The development came just hours after major app stores removed TikTok and the app ceased functioning for U.

TikTok has officially been banned in the United States, weeks after the Supreme Court upheld the law that would require its Chinese-owned company ByteDance to sell to a U.S.-held company.