{"id":45611,"date":"2025-09-26T23:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/45611\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T23:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:51:05","slug":"the-blink-security-camera-app-is-down-but-amazon-is-working-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/45611\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blink security camera app is down, but Amazon is working on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The app for Amazon\u2019s Blink security cameras is experiencing an issue that\u2019s preventing users from accessing their cameras, but your recordings and notifications are not affected, Amazon spokesperson Emma Daniels tells The Verge. Users on Amazon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazonforum.com\/s\/topic\/0TO6Q000000kQWFWA2\/blink-general-questions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">general Blink support forum<\/a> and on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/blinkcameras\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blink Cameras subreddit<\/a> have been reporting issues accessing the app, with many running into a vague error with a 503 status code.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In a thread on Reddit with more than 150 comments, users from all over the US, including California, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, and Washington, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/blinkcameras\/comments\/1nrcqsc\/503_error\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are reporting<\/a> seeing the 503 error. That thread was first posted at 4:54PM ET. Amazon\u2019s support forum has multiple threads flagging the 503 error, with threads starting to pop up about two hours ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">My colleague Jen Tuohy is also having problems logging into the Blink app. I don\u2019t own any Blink cameras, but when I downloaded the app and tried to make an account, the app showed me an error message with a 403 status code. (And I\u2019m apparently not the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/blinkcameras\/comments\/1nrfasv\/new_user_here_cannot_register_online_support_is\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new user dealing with problems<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cWe\u2019re aware of an issue affecting Blink customers\u2019 ability to use the Blink app, and are working diligently on a fix,\u201d Daniels says. \u201cCustomers should continue to check their app for updates.\u201d The Blink SmartHome Alexa skill may also be impacted by the issue, according to Daniels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The app for Amazon\u2019s Blink security cameras is experiencing an issue that\u2019s preventing users from accessing their cameras,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3468,203,61,60,43,2958,216,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-45611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-gadgets","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-smart-home","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}