On the eve of his return to office, the President-elect's pivot from TikTok critic to potential savior marks a striking shift in the platform's U.S. prospects

TikTok went offline in the United States Saturday night, less than two hours before a ban was slated to go into effect.

TikTok came back online after Donald Trump promised to delay a law banning it, but its service providers have taken different stances on the ban.

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.

"A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work wi