Trump says he will issue executive order on Monday to get TikTok back up in US

A message reading ‘Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now’ is displayed from the TikTok app on a mobile phone screen in Los Angeles (Andy Bao/AP)

US president-elect Donald Trump has said he plans to issue an executive order that would give TikTok’s China-based parent company more time to find an approved buyer before the popular video-sharing platform is subject to a permanent US ban.

Mr Trump announced the decision in a post on his Truth Social account as millions of TikTok users in the US awoke to discover they could no longer access the TikTok app or platform.