YouTube Major Outage February 17, 2026: What Happened, Why It Broke, and How It Was Fixed
YouTube Outage - February 17, 2026 YouTube Suffers Major Outage on February 17, 2026 A typical "Something went wrong" error screen users encountered during the YouTube outage on February 17, 2026. Many users saw completely blank homepages and feeds. What Caused the YouTube Downtime? The issues began escalating around 7:45 p.m. ET on February 17, 2026, with widespread reports of blank screens, videos failing to load, and problems with the homepage, subscription feeds, and recommendations across YouTube, YouTube Music, and YouTube Kids. YouTube's official account (@TeamYouTube) confirmed the problem was due to an issue with their recommendations system , which prevented videos from appearing on the homepage and other surfaces. While the heaviest impact was in th...