{"id":475186,"date":"2026-02-18T04:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/475186\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T04:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:48:09","slug":"youtube-says-issue-resolved-after-more-than-a-quarter-million-users-report-problems-accessing-website-and-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/475186\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube says issue \u2018resolved\u2019 after more than a quarter million users report problems accessing website and app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/youtube-espn-abc-hulu-google-b2856243.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a> has announced that all of its platforms are \u201care back to normal\u201d after more than a quarter million users <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tech\/cloudflare-down-chatgpt-google-meta-b2867578.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reported issues;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">reported issues<\/a> accessing the social media site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Around 350,000 users reported issues accessing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/youtube-abc-espn-google-hulu-b2865786.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">YouTube<\/a> on Tuesday evening from 8 p.m. Eastern time, according to the unofficial, crowd-sourced site <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/youtube\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Downdetector;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Downdetector<\/a>. The most commonly reported problem was users saying they had issues using the YouTube app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">By around 10 p.m., YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TeamYouTube\/status\/2023958868372676770\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:confirmed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">confirmed<\/a> the \u201cissue has been fixed\u201d across its platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">\u201cThe 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,\u201d a statement on the <a href=\"http:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=44681X1458326&amp;articleId=b2922433&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.google.com%2Fyoutube%2Fthread%2F410904426&amp;sref=\/tech\/is-youtube-down-tv-outage-google-b2922433.html\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:YouTube help page;elm:affiliate_link;elmt:premonetized;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">YouTube help page<\/a> reads.<\/p>\n<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/954cca16d8102711c90de7b440e81fa4.jpeg\" alt=\"Thousands of users claimed YouTube wasn\u2019t fully functioning on Tuesday evening, with some reporting issues on the site\u2019s homepage (REUTERS)\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"641\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> Thousands of users claimed YouTube wasn\u2019t fully functioning on Tuesday evening, with some reporting issues on the site\u2019s homepage (REUTERS)      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Before the fix was announced, YouTube said it was working to resolve a \u201csmall number of reports that some people are unable to login to YouTube TV.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">\u201cThis is related to the broader issue across YouTube, and we&#8217;re also working on a fix here,\u201d YouTube said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">YouTube initially confirmed the outage in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TeamYouTube\/status\/2023939761791242521\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:post on X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">post on X<\/a>: \u201cIf you\u2019re having trouble accessing YouTube right now, you\u2019re not alone.\u201d Earlier Tuesday, the video service\u2019s homepage returned an error message when an Independent reporter tried to use it, though individual videos appeared to still be loading and playing properly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">\u201cLooks like YouTube isn\u2019t working properly,\u201d Indiana-based journalist Hannah Adamson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Hannah__Adamson\/status\/2023934964392149315\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wrote;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">wrote<\/a> on X. \u201cI can still access saved and recently viewed videos, but nothing on the home page loads. Seeing a lot of people on X saying YouTube isn\u2019t working for them either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The issues on YouTube quickly inspired jokes online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">A YouTube gaming creator ParrotMode <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ParrotModeTV\/status\/2023932061011034493\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wrote;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">wrote<\/a> on X that YouTubers were now \u201cwriting 45 minute scripts about The Great YouTube Outage of 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube has announced that all of its platforms are \u201care back to normal\u201d after more than a quarter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,9280,19618],"class_list":["post-475186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-youtube","tag-youtube-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}