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

YouTube is experiencing an outage throughout america, with customers in different nations like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia additionally having issues with accessing the web site. The problem appears to have began at round 8 PM Japanese time and reached 338,000 stories on Downdetector earlier than beginning to taper down. Extra customers reported having points accessing the app, however I personally misplaced entry to the online 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 really helpful movies.

Downdetector additionally bought 1000’s of stories of Google being down at round 8 PM Japanese time. As of 9:53 PM, Engadget Managing Editor Cherlynn Low stories that each YouTube and Google Dwelling Assistant are nonetheless inaccessible for her. As of 10:12PM Japanese, Crew YouTube posted on X that the difficulty has been fully 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 advice system was having points, although its homepage was again.

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

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

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

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