TikTok went offline in the US, just hours before a new law banning it came into force on Sunday.
The popular video-sharing app was also removed from the Google Play Store and App Store as well.
Several screenshots of the app, which has over 170 million users in the US, shared on social media showed a message on the short-video platform stating that a law banning TikTok had been enacted, with the message, “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now.”
Earlier, the company had said in another message to users that its service would be “temporarily unavailable” and told them that it was working to restore its US service “as soon as possible.”
A law that prohibits mobile app stores and internet hosting services from distributing TikTok to US users takes effect on Sunday.
Notably, on Saturday, the Supreme Court upheld a law banning TikTok in the US on grounds of national security if its Chinese parent company ByteDance does not sell it, putting the popular short-video app on track to go dark in just two days.
Under the law passed by Congress and signed by US President Joe Biden last year, TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance had nine months to sell the platform’s US operation to an approved buyer. The law allows the sitting president to grant an extension if a sale is in progress.
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