YouTube recovering after disruptions in the US, Southeast Asia
A teenager poses for a photo while holding a smartphone in front of a Youtube logo in this illustration taken September 11, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Reports of disruptions to YouTube have tapered off after hitting a peak on Wednesday (Feb 18) morning in Asia.
Thousands of users in several Southeast Asian countries - including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines - reported errors, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from multiple sources.
In Singapore, the number of incidents of people reporting issues with the social media platform began spiking shortly before 9am, reaching almost 3,000 at 9.27am before declining. By 10.12am, only around 200 incidents were reported.
Over 320,000 users reported errors in the United States.
"If you're having trouble accessing YouTube right now, you're not alone - our teams are looking into this," the company said on X, linking to a support page.
The help page later posted that "an issue with our recommendations system prevented videos from appearing across surfaces on YouTube (including the homepage, the YouTube app, YouTube Music and YouTube Kids)."
"The homepage is back, but we're still working on a full fix," it said.
Google-owned YouTube is the world's largest video-sharing platform, with over 2.5 billion users actively using the site each month.
