On Saturday, April 5 the deadline for TikTok to be sold or be banned is due to come into force. Will the app close down again? And what will it mean?

But if the app isn't sold by the April 5 deadline, here's what US social media users should expect. Will I be able to download TikTok to my phone? Under the law, app stores run by

President Donald Trump on Friday said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.

Throughout this process, ByteDance – a Chinese company – has yet to comment directly on the potential of a sale to a US firm. TikTok's US leadership and its CEO, Shou Zi Chew, have publicly praised President Donald Trump for his intervention but have been mostly silent since then.

As TikTok’s April 5th sell-by date approaches, Americans are back to where they stood before the original January deadline: watching anxiously to see if a major social media app gets banned. But that’s far from the only big event we’ll see over the coming month.

If ByteDance does not divest TikTok by April 5, the app could go dark once again. President Trump has already addressed how he plans to prevent the ban.

It’s possible President Donald Trump could extend the deadline by signing an executive order, but he hasn’t indicated that he would do so.

President Donald Trump extended a deadline requiring China-based ByteDance to sell U.S. TikTok operations, marking second time Trump taken such an action.