Trump announced the decision in a post on his Truth Social account as millions of TikTok users in the U.S. awoke to discover they could no longer access the TikTok app or platform. Google and Apple removed the app from their digital stores to comply with a federal law that required them to do so if TikTok parent company ByteDance didn't sell its U.

The president-elect Sunday pledged an executive order, hours into his second term, returning access for American users, at least temporarily.

Trump’s brief message lays out his intention to seek partial American ownership of TikTok, but it isn’t clear he has authority to suspend the law that shut it down this weekend.