YouTube is down for hundreds of customers within the US

YouTube is experiencing an outage throughout the USA, with customers in different international locations like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia additionally having problems with accessing the web site. The difficulty appears to have began at round 8PM 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 9:22PM, customers are nonetheless reporting being unable to entry YouTube on Reddit.

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