YouTube was down for 1000’s of customers within the US

YouTube is experiencing an outage throughout the USA, with customers in different nations like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia additionally having problems with accessing the web site. The difficulty appears to have began at round 8 PM Japanese time and reached 338,000 reviews on Downdetector earlier than beginning to taper down. Extra customers reported having points accessing the app, however I personally misplaced entry to the net homepage first.

As of 9:22 PM, customers are nonetheless reporting being unable to entry YouTube on Reddit. As of 9:33 PM, customers are complaining that they nonetheless can’t entry the service, although others say it’s again up for them. Some persons are reporting partial restoration of service, with the homepage now being accessible however not seeing any beneficial movies.

Downdetector additionally acquired 1000’s of reviews of Google being down at round 8 PM Japanese time. As of 9:53 PM, Engadget Managing Editor Cherlynn Low reviews that each YouTube and Google Dwelling Assistant are nonetheless inaccessible for her. As of 10:12PM Japanese, Workforce YouTube posted on X that the problem has been utterly fastened. Whereas it didn’t say why YouTube went down, the staff acknowledged the issue earlier than 9PM and posted an replace 20 minutes later that its suggestion system was having points, although its homepage was again.

Replace, February 17, 2026, 10:27 PM ET: YouTube says the problem has been utterly fastened.

Replace, February 17, 2026, 10:08 PM ET: Up to date with reviews that sure Google companies are additionally down for some customers.

Replace, February 17, 2026, 9:34 PM ET: Up to date with reviews from customers.

Replace, February 17, 2026, 9:26 PM ET: Up to date to right time of outage, added new nations the place it’s out and added new reviews of YouTube nonetheless being inaccessible.