By Ben Schoon
Publication Date: 2026-02-18 01:27:00
If you’re trying to access YouTube right now and running into problems, you’re not alone, as a widespread outage appears to be affecting YouTube and, to a lesser extent, YouTube TV.
Update: Google says that this issue is partially fixed, with the homepage once again accessible, but a “full fix” is yet to come for issues affecting recommendations.
An issue with our recommendations system prevented videos from appearing across surfaces on YouTube (including the homepage, the YouTube app, YouTube Music and YouTube Kids). The homepage is back, but we’re still working on a full fix.
Starting at around 7:45pm ET (4:45pm PT) and expanding rapidly as of 8pm ET (5pm PT), YouTube is down in a fairly widespread outage. There are nearly 300,000 reports on DownDetector and growing, with a large spike for both Google and YouTube TV on the outage tracker as well – as far as we can tell, though, this is primarily a core YouTube outage.
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