Instagram was down, but now it’s working again

Instagram was down for a few hours on Sunday evening. The app’s feed was frozen, with users throwing up errors saying it couldn’t refresh, while the website only served a blank page. According to outage tracker down detectorThe first reports of the problem began a few minutes after 6PM ET before reaching over 175,000 reports at its peak, but as of 7:30PM ET, the problem appears to have been resolved and is working again. Has been

in an email ledgeAcknowledging the outage, Meta spokesman Dave Arnold said, “We know some people are having trouble accessing Instagram. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we look forward to any inconvenience.” Apologies for.”

Other services related to Instagram’s parent company Meta, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, or Horizon World, appear to be unaffected. There’s no sign of any issues like the massive datacenter spine problem that could bring the company’s services down for hours in 2021.

The account did not post any updates about the outage on Instagram’s help page and on other platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. An Instagram-owned service like Twitter would be a good place to check, but despite rumors and leaks, it doesn’t exist yet.

Update May 21st, 7:20PM ET: An added comment from a Meta spokesperson confirms the Instagram outage.

Update May 21st, 7:42PM ET: Updated to note that the outage is over.