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PSA: YouTube confirms ongoing widespread outage [Update: Fixed]
9to5Mac • • business
Key Points:
- YouTube experienced a widespread outage starting shortly after 8 p.m. PT, affecting the homepage, subscriptions feed, Shorts feed, and causing slow video playback across both website and mobile apps.
- YouTube TV was also impacted for some users, with some viewers reporting being kicked off mid-video and others being signed out of their accounts on iPhone.
- TeamYouTube acknowledged the issue on social media, stating their team is working on a fix but no estimated resolution time has been provided.
- The outage was confirmed through user complaints on Downdetector and social media, highlighting the broad scope of the disruption.
- Google lacks a public status page for YouTube, making it difficult to track the outage progress, and users
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