YouTube was 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 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 beneficial movies.

Downdetector additionally obtained hundreds 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 Residence Assistant are nonetheless inaccessible for her. As of 10:12PM Japanese, Workforce YouTube posted on X that the problem has been utterly mounted. Whereas it didn’t say why YouTube went down, the workforce acknowledged the issue earlier than 9PM and posted an replace 20 minutes later that its suggestion system was having points, though its homepage was again.

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

Replace, February 17, 2026, 10:08 PM ET: Up to date with stories that sure Google providers 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 right time of outage, added new international locations the place it’s out and added new stories of YouTube nonetheless being inaccessible.