Is YouTube down?
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Troubleshooting tips for YouTube
If our monitor reports YouTube is up but you still can't reach it, try these steps in order:
Hard-refresh your browser
- Press Ctrl + F5 (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + R (Mac) to bypass the cache.
- If that fails, open the page in an incognito / private window.
Clear cookies and cache
- Open your browser settings → Privacy / History.
- Clear cookies and cached files for the last hour, then reload.
Flush your DNS
- Windows: open Command Prompt and run ipconfig /flushdns.
- macOS: open Terminal and run sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder.
- Linux: run sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches (or systemctl restart nscd).
Restart your router
- Unplug the router and modem for 30 seconds.
- Plug them back in and wait until all lights are stable, then retry.
Try a different DNS or VPN
- Switch your DNS to 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) or 8.8.8.8 (Google).
- Use a reputable VPN to test from a different country — useful when the site may be region-blocked.
What usually breaks on YouTube
YouTube is the world's largest video platform and part of Google's infrastructure, which makes complete outages rare and short. When it does break, uploads, comments and playback tend to fail independently of each other.
Videos will not play but the page loads
Page loading and video delivery are separate. A spinning player on a page that otherwise works points at YouTube's video servers.
Signed-out features work, signed-in ones do not
If watching works but your subscriptions, history or comments do not, the account layer is degraded rather than YouTube as a whole.
Only one quality level works
Higher resolutions come from different servers. Being able to watch at 360p but not 1080p is a partial delivery failure.
Official status page: Google Workspace Status Dashboard
Covers Google services broadly; YouTube incidents are not always listed separately.
30-day uptime
Daily probe results for YouTube over the last 30 days.
Recent response times
| Date & time | Response | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1 minute ago | 258 ms | up |
| 6 minutes ago | 300 ms | up |
| 11 minutes ago | 201 ms | up |
| 16 minutes ago | 200 ms | up |
| 21 minutes ago | 268 ms | up |
| 26 minutes ago | 192 ms | up |
| 31 minutes ago | 256 ms | up |
| 36 minutes ago | 223 ms | up |
| 41 minutes ago | 218 ms | up |
| 46 minutes ago | 184 ms | up |
| 51 minutes ago | 319 ms | up |
| 56 minutes ago | 285 ms | up |
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