The company said TikTok was coming back online in the U.S. after President-elect Donald Trump provided assurances to its service providers.

TikTok restored service Sunday after President-elect Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order to pause the ban on the wildly popular app. On Saturday night, TikTok shut down operations in anticipation of a ban taking effect Sunday. But on Sunday afternoon, it began a comeback.

First launched in the United States in 2018, the app quickly became the most downloaded social and entertainment app in the world. By 2020, when Americans were looking for ways to

The app had more than 170 million monthly users in the U.S. The black-out is the result of a law forcing the service offline unless it sheds its ties to ByteDance, its China-based parent company.

Millions of TikTok users in the United States are no longer able to watch videos on the social media platform as a federal ban on the immensely popular app takes effect.