YouTube is down for thousands of users in the US

YouTube is experiencing an outage across the United States, with users in other countries like Canada, India, the Philippines, Australia and Russia also having problems with accessing the website. The issue seems to have started at around 8PM Eastern time and reached 326,000 reports on Downdetector before starting to taper down. More users reported having issues accessing the app, but I personally lost access to the web homepage first. As of 9:22PM, users are still reporting being unable to access YouTube on Reddit.

Update, February 17, 2026, 9:26 PM ET: Updated to correct time of outage, added new countries where it’s out and new reports of YouTube still being inaccessible.