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YouTube services ‘back to normal’ after glitch hits users in US, Singapore, Australia and India
An issue with YouTube's recommendation system caused videos to not appear, affecting over 300,000 users at peak, before the platform was restored the same evening.
- On February 18, 2026, YouTube, the video platform, experienced a service disruption affecting users in the United States, Singapore, Australia and India, with the issue later resolved, YouTube said.
- At first, the exact cause was unclear, and Cloudflare said it was monitoring a minor incident involving Google Trust Services while YouTube later described it as a technical issue.
- Downdetector logged a rapid spike in user reports starting around 5 p.m. PT, recording more than 320,000 reports in the United States before partial restoration by about 6:00 p.m. PT.
- YouTube said `The issue with our recommendations `system has been resolved, and all of our platforms are back to normal;` some videos remained accessible via subscriptions.
- YouTube's global scale — more than 2.5 billion monthly users — magnifies outage impacts, and Downdetector's user-submitted data means actual affected numbers may vary.
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The YouTube platform officially confirmed that the technical problems that during the morning made it impossible to access the platform around the world have been solved.Users around the world faced an unusual problem: when opening the YouTube application or page, instead of content, blank screens appeared, error messages such as “Something went wrong” or endless uploading.The YouTube team, through the official “TeamYouTube” account, announced t…
YouTube announced that it has solved the global breakdown that has disrupted its recommendation system and deprived hundreds of thousands of users of access to videos. ...
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