TikTok has cemented itself as the quintessential entertainment app, offering everything from funny skits and makeup tutorials to social commentary and news.

Michigan institutions and public figures use TikTok, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the University of Michigan, but it could be banned in days.

"The First Amendment exists to protect free speech in the United States," Senior Circuit Judge Douglas Ginsburg wrote in a December ruling for the US Court of Appeals for the Dist

Using TikTok on desktop is the easiest way to save videos created either by a logged-in account or that have privacy settings that allow them to be downloaded. Videos with the proper settings on TikTok.