Instagram was down — live updates on the quick outage

Instagram is back

The outage is officially over… for now

X (Twitter) reactions

Whenever there’s an outage, the community on X quickly reacts with their thoughts.

In this case, because the outage was so quick, there wasn’t a lot of time, but that didn’t stop some comments from coming out, especially users trying to figure out what’s happened and whether Instagram is actually down at all.

Fixed already?!

It looks like the quick outage is already resolved, as Downdetector now says “User reports indicate possible problems at Instagram” instead of “User reports indicate problems at Instagram.”

That could mean that problem has been resolved already, but we’ll have to keep checking back to see if that stays the case.

Where’s the outage?

Downdetector reports are also coming in from the U.K. version of the website, indicating that this problem isn’t contained in the United States alone.

With reports starting to pour in from all over the world, this could be an outage to keep an eye on.

And so it begins

While scurrying around Downdetector to ensure all of the internet’s popular services are up and running, I noticed a blip in reports for the Meta-owned Instagram social network.

Currently, several Tom’s Guide staff members are using Instagram without a problem, but the reports are growing at a fast enough pace that we’re concerned something might be wrong with the app and will continue to monitor

DMs could be the main issue

Based on X posts, it sounds like the place most users are experiencing difficulty is with direct messages. Posting and viewing other people’s posts seems to work for most, so if that’s the primary way you use Instagram, you might not see an issue.

However, it’s not exclusive to DMs, as some users can’t even log in to Instagram, claiming they see “network failed” messages, as noted in the X post embedded above.