Is YouTube down? Popular video app and website goes down for thousands of users amid global outage
Around 350,000 users reported issues accessing YouTube on Tuesday evening from 8 p.m Eastern time according to DownDetector.
The most commonly reported problem was users saying they had issues using the YouTube app. By around 10 p.m., YouTube confirmed the “issue has been fixed” across its platforms.
“The issue with our recommendations system has been resolved and all of our platforms (YouTube.com, the YouTube app, YouTube Music, Kids, and TV) are back to normal! We really appreciate you bearing with us while we sorted this out,” a statement on the YouTube help page reads.
Before the fix was announced, YouTube said it was working to resolve a “small number of reports that some people are unable to login to YouTube TV.” YouTube initially confirmed the outage in a post on X: “If you’re having trouble accessing YouTube right now, you’re not alone.”
The error on the video sharing service was reported in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Data from the crowd-sourced site DownDetector showed 37,136 reports of a YouTube problem at 1.16am in the United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 18.
One YouTube user wrote on Reddit: "I finished the video I was watching then it booted me all the way out. Keeps telling me there is an issue logging in. My phone I can still see my subs, and all that jazz, just not my feed."