If you are staring at a blank screen, a spinning wheel, or an error message and wondering, “Why is YouTube not working today?”, you are not alone. Whether you are dealing with endless buffering, video loading issues, or the frustrating “www.youtube.com refused to connect” error, determining the root cause is the first step to getting … Read more
Updated October 2026. Epic lists all Fortnite services as operational. No open incident. Fortnite servers down is what you search when matchmaking fails or the game will not load. As of 17 October 2026, Epic Games’ status page lists every Fortnite component as operational: login, game services, matchmaking, parties, voice chat, the item shop, and … Read more
Latest, Aug 8, 2026, evening ET: Verizon says its engineers are “making progress” on the voice service issue and recommend restarting your device if you’re still affected. The outage began Saturday afternoon and is not yet fully resolved for everyone. This page will be updated as the situation develops. If you’re a Verizon customer and … Read more
Quick check, updated regularly: As of early August 2026, Netflix has no confirmed major outage. Outage trackers show a normal baseline of scattered reports — a handful of people always report playback or login issues on any given day. If you’re seeing errors right now, it’s most likely a local issue on your end rather … Read more
If you tapped your phone at a checkout today and nothing happened, you were not alone. Millions of people opened their Wallet app and got an error instead of a payment. So why is Apple Pay not working today? The short answer: Apple’s payment servers went down on the afternoon of July 31, 2026, and … Read more
T-Mobile customers across the United States started seeing “SOS” or “SOS Only” instead of their usual signal bars on the afternoon of July 27, 2026. Downdetector logged more than 140,000 reports at the peak, making this T-Mobile SOS outage one of the largest carrier disruptions in years. Here’s what actually happened, why phones switched into … Read more
Update, September 3, 2026: ChatGPT went down again, this time alongside OpenAI’s coding tool Codex. Downdetector reports jumped from over 5,000 to more than 22,000 within about ten minutes on the morning of September 3, and OpenAI’s status page confirmed an active incident titled “Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex.” Details on this latest outage are … Read more