PSA: YouTube is down, it's not just you

[ruet]

Source: 9to5Mac

Yes, YouTube is down
According to outage tracker Downdetector, complaints about the YouTube outage began shortly after 8 p.m. PT/5 p.m. PT. YouTube TV also appears to be suffering from an outage.

The problems appear to primarily be affecting the YouTube homepage as well as the subscriptions feed. If you visit a channel or video directly, the page will load but might be slow. Video playback is also lagging more than usual.

Read more: https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/17/psa-its-not-just-you-youtube-is-down/

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EDIT: It looks like it's more than YT.



EDIT 2: My guess is that it's a Cloudflare issue.

[SheltieLover]

1. Working fine here

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. You broke it!

[SheltieLover]

7. Noooo.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Explain why you are the only person on the planet that it's working for! Huh?

[SheltieLover]

15. Is it still not working?

I have tabs of channels open & searched up channels & they work here.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. Mine is back. Thank you!

[SheltieLover]

18. Yw

[Miguelito Loveless]

19. The problems seems to be when

you try to access sub feeds.

[SheltieLover]

20. Not sure what that is.

[SheltieLover]

10. Gs said was down earlier.

Working for me now.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. Mine just came back! Don't tell anyone! 😏

[SheltieLover]

16. You're back in business!

[ruet]

6. Are you watching a video from a subscription?

The main feed mechanism is down but you can access video via search or subscription?

[SheltieLover]

9. Gs said was down here earlier.

Watching from you tube sites I keep open.

Good luck!

[Eugene]

12. Just tried searching. The home page and live feeds are broken. Everything else appears to work.

Searches, history, play lists, and subscriptions all work.

[Raven123]

3. Thanks. I noticed it too

[Raven123]

4. It's Trump's fault!

Ok I don’t know but heck, he’d blame Biden if he were still president so why not.

[Hstch05]

5. Thanks

for the heads up.

[Eugene]

8. Channels and playlists work. Home page threw two captcha challenges before showing a blank feed.

That's an improvement over "Something went wrong."

Reports say the problem mainly affects North America.

[canetoad]

22. Affected Oz

Back now.

[ruet]

13. And, it's back.

The amount of lost ad revenue over that time is probably astounding.

[Wiz Imp]

21. There was absolutely no problem with Roku.

[artemisia1]

23. Thanks for the heads-up. I had restarted my IPad thinking the problem was with me. /nt

[Buddyzbuddy]

24. Did you try turning it off and then on again?

[Historic NY]

25. Its been hanging on ad transitions in videos..

I've had to back it up and restart the video.

[mwmisses4289]

26. It started having issues with a video I was watching about

7ish last night, got out of it, then when I tried to go back in, it kept giving the something went wrong g screen. Was back up when I tried again about 9:30.

[thought crime]

27. Heavy load from Bad Bunny videos played by everyone on Earth at the same time