Some of us at The Verge are seeing the app fully back, while for others, the app is behaving as though it has no internet connection. Prior to this, TikTok’s website started loading once more. The app has not yet returned to the iOS App Store.

The popular video app went dark in the United States late Saturday, as a law banning it took effect. Now, the company is hoping President-elect Donald J. Trump can bring it back.

President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Sunday that he would issue an executive order to stall a federal ban of TikTok, just hours after major app stores removed the popular social media site and it stopped operating for U.S. users.

Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts said "there's no legal basis" for an extension to keep the social media platform online.

Notably, RedNote (Xiaohongshu) is still available for download from the U.S. app store, despite being a Chinese-owned platform subject to China's data privacy and censorship laws. In the lead-up to TikTok's banning, many users have flocked to the video-forward platform as a potential alternative.

Before the ban, there was speculation that VPNs—which allow users to mask their true location and have been used to access TikTok in other countries where it is banned—could provide a potential workaround, leading searches and app store downloads for VPNs to surge after the ban took effect.

The company turned off its app for its 170 million US users on Saturday. Users are flocking to other corners of the internet to react.

Even if temporary, the unprecedented shutdown of TikTok will have an impact on U.S.-China relations, domestic politics, the social-media marketplace and millions of Americans who depend on the app.

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday clarified his stance on TikTok, writing in a post on TruthSocial that he'd like to bring the app back online in the U.S. as soon as possible, even if there's no deal yet for a U.

Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to issue an executive order extending ByteDance’s chance to sell TikTok before a national ban, multiple Republican lawmakers seemed to relish in the app’s shutdown.

President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to issue an executive order that would give TikTok’s China-based parent company more time to find an approved buyer before the popular video-sharing platform is subject to a permanent ban in the US.