Political shifts and legal hurdles have delayed TikTok's removal, with Biden reportedly kicking the issue to Trump.

The U.S. Supreme Court officially upheld the law to ban the TikTok social media app on Friday.

TikTok is set to be banned in the US on 19 January after the Supreme Court denied a last ditch legal bid from its Chinese owner, ByteDance. It found the law banning the social media platform did not violate the first amendment rights of TikTok and its 170 million users, as the companies argued.

A U.S. ban of TikTok began to take effect on Sunday, capping a high-stakes battle that pitted the federal government against one of the nation's most popular social media platforms.

U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle hailed a ruling by the Supreme Court on Friday that upheld a law that gives popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok until Sunday to be bought by an American company or be banned.

With the ban upheld by the Supreme Court and the Biden administration leaving, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is banking on Trump to save the app in the US.

A message appearing for US users said a law banning TikTok had been enacted, meaning "you can't use TikTok for now".

The Supreme Court upheld a law that requires TikTok's Chinese owner to sell off the app's U.S. business or face a nationwide ban Sunday.

The popular social media platform TikTok has gone offline in the United States, just hours before a law banning the app was set to take effect. This development has left millions of users in limbo, with many expressing their dismay through final posts on the platform before it went dark.

A new law has effectively forced Chinese tech company ByteDance to take TikTok and several other apps offline in various ways. And, when storefronts run by Appl

TikTok, as it said it would, shut off the video app for U.S. users at about 10:30 p.m. ET on Saturday night. And for now, it’s unclear how long TikTok will stay down. “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now,