YouTube Recovers From Outage After Several Hours

Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), YouTube announced that it has fixed issues that had disrupted certain features for several thousands of its users across the online video sharing and social media platform for a few hours on Tuesday.

YouTube tweeted on Wednesday: "All fixed – you should now be able to log in, switch between accounts, and use the account menu & navigation bar across all services (YouTube, YouTube TV, YouTube Music, YouTube Studio) and devices."

All fixed – you should now be able to log in, switch between accounts, and use the account menu & navigation bar across all services (YouTube, YouTube TV, YouTube Music, YouTube Studio) and devices.

Thank you so much for your patience ? https://t.co/ytjSVnytlP

— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) April 12, 2022

Users reported that the account menu which lets you switch accounts, manage settings, log in and use of the navigation bar was broken. YouTube tweeted at the time of disruption.

Getting reports from around the ? that some of you are having trouble with certain features across YouTube services (e.g. logging in, switching accounts & using the navigation bar) – we’re aware & working on a fix.

Sharing updates as we have them here → https://t.co/wOtEBLiWAC

— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) April 12, 2022

A website that tracks outages by collating status reports, Downdetector reported that nearly 10,000 users had reported issues with the service, including user-submitted errors on its platform.