Millions of Users Affected! YouTube Outage Cause Finally Revealed — Find the Real Truth
- Users across the globe reported issues with the video platform, YouTube, on Tuesday.
YouTube users worldwide reported disruptions as a recommendations system glitch triggered a global outage on february 17, 2026.
On 17 February 2026, the popular video platform – YouTube suffered a global outage.
Around 8:00 PM, thousands of the users reported issues faced with the platform. Well, find
the main reason behind the glitch.
In a statement posted to the official TeamYouTube X account, the team revealed that the actual
cause of the YouTube outage is the recommendations system. The algorithmic system is
accountable for sharing the users. It thinks you’ll want to watch it according to the past history.
The company shared more information on details on a Google support page.
According to the YouTube officials, "Important Update: YouTube technical issues today with
our recommendations system disallowed videos from appearing across surfaces on YouTube. It
includes the homepage, YouTube Music, the YouTube app, and YouTube Kids." "The homepage
is now available, but we're still working on a complete fix — new updates are coming soon!"
More updates on YouTube outage February 2026, within one hour added that: "We're also
finding a small number of reports that some users are still unable to log in to YouTube TV. It is a
big technical issue across YouTube, and we're also working on a fix here."
The ‘final update’ was shared around 10:15 p.m. "The issue with our recommendations system
has been resolved, and all of our platforms. Now, YouTube.com, the YouTube app, YouTube
Music, Kids, and TV are available normally! We really value you bearing with us while we sort
this out."
Crowd-sourced outage tracker Downdetector saw a hike in the activity for YouTube on
Tuesday evening. YouTube has received more than 1.6 million user error reports in the last 24
hours on 17 February.
