YouTube is down for thousands of users in the US
Published: (February 17, 2026 at 09:07 PM EST)
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Source: Engadget
Source: Engadget
By Mariella Moon, Contributing Reporter – Updated Wed, February 18, 2026 at 2:11 AM UTC
YouTube is experiencing an outage across the United States, with users in other countries like India and the Philippines also having problems accessing the website. The issue appears to have started around 8 AM Eastern time and quickly generated 326,000 reports on Downdetector before beginning to taper down. While many users reported trouble with the app, the homepage was the first to become inaccessible for me.
It’s also down in some other countries
(Additional details about the impact in other regions were not provided in the source material.)