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

YouTube is experiencing an outage throughout the US, with customers in different international locations like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia additionally having problems with accessing the web site. The problem appears to have began at round 8 PM Jap 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 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 really helpful movies.

Downdetector additionally obtained 1000’s of stories of Google being down at round 8 PM Jap time. As of 9:53 PM, Engadget Managing Editor Cherlynn Low stories that each YouTube and Google House Assistant are nonetheless inaccessible for her. As of 10:12PM Jap, Staff 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, though 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 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 appropriate time of outage, added new international locations the place it’s out and added new stories of YouTube nonetheless being inaccessible.