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TikTok, the wildly popular video-sharing app owned by the China-based company ByteDance, is under increasing pressure to avoid a ban in the United States. The app has long faced scrutiny over concerns about its potential access to American users’ data and its connection to China, raising national security fears.

In a decisive move, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law mandating ByteDance to sell its U.S. operations or face a complete ban. Despite a flurry of last-minute offers—including a $20 billion bid from Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary and a proposed merger with Perplexity AI—ByteDance rejected the deals, leaving millions of TikTok users temporarily locked out.

The situation took a turn on January 19, when President-elect Trump, after receiving assurances from TikTok’s CEO, announced an executive order delaying the ban. The order grants TikTok 75 more days to negotiate a potential deal, preventing an abrupt shutdown of the app that is used by millions of Americans daily.

The order gives Trump’s administration time to work out a solution that addresses national security concerns while ensuring that the app’s millions of users are not left in the dark. For now, TikTok is back online, as it made it’s way back into app stores mid-February. There is still no further update as both the app and U.S. regulators work toward finding a resolution.

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