Canva Down: Users Unable to Save or Edit Designs for Several Hours Amid Global Outage
On July 8, 2025, Canva experienced a significant outage starting around 8 AM IST, preventing users worldwide—especially in India and the US—from saving, editing, or viewing their designs. The company acknowledged the issue and is actively working on a resolution
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On the morning of July 8, 2025, Canva—the popular graphic design platform—suffered a major service disruption beginning around 8 AM IST. Reports flooded in from Downdetector, revealing over 600 incidents worldwide, with more than 100 from India alone. The outage impacted the web platform most severely (about 64% of reports), and around 9% of users also had trouble on the mobile app.
Affected users worldwide reported that they couldn’t log in, open existing designs, or save and edit their work. Some even encountered errors when downloading files . Social media lit up with complaints—and Canva responded via X (formerly Twitter), acknowledging "technical difficulties" and assuring users that they were working on a fix.
The official Canva status page confirmed a “major outage,” citing problems with viewing and saving designs, real‑time comments, notifications, Canva AI features, and more. The team marked the incident as "identified" around 12:13 PM AEST and was still investigating as of 2:56 PM AEST.
This outage follows a similar disruption on June 21, 2025, indicating recurring issues that could impact user trust.
