No; it’s not simply you: hundreds of experiences are flooding in, complaining of repeated crashes when attempting to entry YouTube utilizing iPhones and iPads.
Google has acknowledged a difficulty affecting iOS units and is already engaged on a repair. Nevertheless, a a lot smaller variety of Android and desktop browser customers are additionally reporting issues accessing movies hosted on the positioning.
iOS customers affected by the bug are struggling persistent crashes after 20-30 seconds of viewing. Restarting the system, or turning it off and again on, doesn’t seem to repair the issue.
Error experiences began to spike at round 9am PT, in response to the real-time standing tracker Downdetector, reaching slightly below 8,000 by the point of writing. Nevertheless, YouTube itself isn’t down — The overwhelming majority of issues originate from app customers (73%), with simply 9% originating from these accessing the service through a browser.
If you happen to’re at the moment affected by the problem, chances are you’ll discover success by utilizing a browser as an alternative of the app. If that doesn’t give you the results you want, you’ll simply should outdated tight and await Google to repair the issue.
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