As TikTok shut down on Saturday, a final message to US users suggested it was relying on President Trump to save the app.

President-elect Donald Trump says he “most likely” will give TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal that would allow the popular video-sharing platform to avoid a U.S. ban.

Once he takes office on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump plans to give TikTok a 90-day 'reprieve' from a ban, he told NBC News on Saturday.

In a surprise turn of events, American TikTok users could not reload their apps roughly two hours before the U.S. ban was set to take effect.

When Donald Trump takes office, he will “most likely” reinstate TikTok.

In July 2020, then-President Donald Trump told reporters he would ban TikTok. The next month, he signed an executive order seeking to ban the app.

TikTok stopped services in the US late on Saturday hours before a federal law banning the app went into effect.

President-elect Donald Trump told ABC News he is likely to grant TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid a ban in the United States.

It comes after the social media platform warned it would "go dark" on Sunday unless the outgoing Biden administration gave assurances the ban would not be enforced.

Late Saturday night, prominent app stores pulled the popular social video platform from their offerings in the U.S.