A deal to keep TikTok active in the US past the current deadline of Dec. 16 is likely to happen soon. In fact, The Wall Street Journal reports that a deal involving US companies and China could be approved by executive order as early as this week.

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But what will change for US users of TikTok? Who will control the platform, and will the US version of the popular video app be a reboot with a completely new app, or a version of the current one that about 170 million Americans already use?

There are surprisingly few answers for many of those questions, although there seems to be some progress. On Sept. 19, US President Donald Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping , and

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