Instagram down

Instagram has not confirmed the outage via its social media accounts or via the in-app Instagram status pages. Reports on Downdetector indicate that the issues ...

Bizarrely, some users are being prompted with a “Welcome to Instagram” message as if they are a completely new users. For many of the affected users, the Instagram app is still loading, but the experience is significantly degraded. A number of reports have surfaced on social media from users who are facing problems using Instagram DMs, loading new posts, and viewing and uploading Instagram stories.

More than 6,000 users reported issues with Instagram on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user- ...

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Instagram users began reporting many feed issues on May 26, when posts reportedly wouldn't load. Here's what to know about Instagram going down and if it's ...

If it’s not, you might want to try updating the app, logging out and logging back in, or even deleting and re-downloading the app altogether. As of 2:41 p.m. ET, there was no post about the reported issues on the Instagram Comms Twitter account, aka where the company usually addresses app performance issues, so perhaps it wasn’t as widespread as Twitter would make you believe, although the reported issues still hovered at around 2,500 at 2:26 p.m. ET. As of 2:11 p.m. ET, Down Detector’s number of reported issues has decreased to 2,878. As of about 1 p.m. ET, there were a range of different issues plaguing the platform — some people were experiencing a glitch that shows you old posts from weeks ago, while others had trouble scrolling through more than a few posts. Many people (including myself) are seeing posts they already saw and engaged with when they were originally posted. Some users have even reported not seeing feeds at all or being logged out of their account and haven’t been able to get back in, making them think they’ve been hacked.

Thursday afternoon, Instagram users noticed that posts on the home feed are all from a few weeks ago, while Stories are still updated normally.

Thursday afternoon, users noticed that the posts they're seeing on the home feed were all actually posted a few weeks ago, while Stories are still updated normally. An Instagram spokesperson told Mashable that they're aware that some users are having trouble, and are working to get things back to normal. People reported Instagram outages on Down Detector, too, starting at around noon eastern and peaking at around 12:30. Since then, users reporting the outage on Down Detector slowly began decreasing in frequency and, at 3:20 p.m. ET, Instagram is already retuning back to normal for some users.