Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube are getting ready to welcome TikTok users, as the Supreme Court upheld a law that effectively bans the Chinese-owned app from the United States.

Experts have said the app will not disappear from existing users’ phones once the law takes effect Sunday, but TikTok said it would shut down the platform in the United States by the deadline.

Users who have the TikTok app on their phone will still be able to access it after Jan. 19. However, because the ban would prevent Apple and Google from providing the app with necessary updates, TikTok would quickly break down and become unusable, leading Americans to look for an alternative app.

As Supreme Court justices ponder the future of TikTok in the United States, a growing number of American social media users have responded by moving to an unlikely alternative: Xiaohongshu, a hugely popular social media app in China.

The Supreme Court upheld a law that requires TikTok's Chinese owner to sell off the app's U.S. business or face a nationwide ban Sunday.

The US Supreme Court has upheld the law mandating China-based ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok by Sunday, or face an effective ban.

TikTok has officially shut down after being banned in the United States. The app is now unusable, but TikTok is working to resolve it.

TikTok is set to "go dark" on Sunday for its 170 million American users after the Supreme Court upheld a law that would ban the app that same day in the United States.

With a TikTok ban likely to move forward after the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling Friday, content creators are sharing their concerns.

So what should advertisers, creators, and small businesses that use TikTok do now? Mollie Lobel, affiliate and influencer community manager at content creator network BrandCycle,

The Supreme Court rejected TikTok's appeal to halt a law banning the app in the U.S. unless Chinese parent ByteDance sells its stake by Jan. 19.