The US wants the app to be sold or banned in the US because of its owner’s alleged links to the Chinese state.
TikTok and parent company Bytedance have repeatedly denied these links.
It said a ban would mean “one of the Nation’s leading speech platforms will be shuttered”.
This would be “inflicting irreparable injury by silencing Petitioners and the 170 million Americans who use the platform each month,” the filing added.
The company reiterated its response to Friday’s ruling, saying it believes the country’s highest legal authority, the Supreme Court, will review it and uphold its argument.
The app should not face a ban in the interim, it argued.
“The public interest favours providing sufficient time for the Supreme Court to conduct an orderly review process, and for the incoming Administration to evaluate this exceptionally important case,” TikTok’s filing to the US federal appeals court in Washington DC.
The company also said that even a temporary ban in the US could cause a loss of revenue, as well as of users and creators who make content for the platform.
TikTok shutting down for even a single month would see it lose approximately one-third of its US daily users it said, citing estimates.
