The fate of the app once again hung in the balance Friday in a déjà vu moment for fans of the social media platform. After briefly going dark following a ban in January, President Donald Trump ...

Though Trump's executive order extending the ban on the platform went into effect on Jan. 20, TikTok remained unavailable to download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store until Feb. 13.

TikTok may be running out of time. The wildly popular social media app faces a Saturday deadline to sell itself to a buyer deemed fit by US officials or face being banned in this country.

That’s one reason why several TikTok users have moved to RedNote, leading to a surge in downloads that pushed the app to the top of the list of free apps in the U.S. App Store, and over 10 ...