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.

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

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

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.

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

While users who already downloaded the app can access it, TikTok isn’t available for download in the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store. Despite the order, companies like

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.

It would only order officials not to enforce the ban. According to TikTok's attorney Noel Francisco, the platform would "go dark" on Sunday. “Essentially the platform shuts down," he said. However the law doesn't require TikTok itself to act, rather it ...

The Supreme Court stated on Friday: "Congress has determined that divestiture is necessary to address well-founded national security concerns about TikTok's data collection practices and its relationship with a foreign adversary." Noel Francisco ...

During Supreme Court arguments on Jan. 10, Noel Francisco, a lawyer for TikTok, warned that the platform would shut down when the law went into effect, explaining that it would be "extraordinarily ...

ByteDance has said it won’t sell the short-form video platform, and TikTok’s attorney Noel Francisco stated a sale might never be possible under the conditions set in the law. Francisco urged the justices to enter a temporary pause that would allow ...