Is Snapchat down? The service experienced a widespread outage on Thursday February 15, which Snapchat support confirmed, but normal service appears to have resumed as of Friday morning (February 16).
Aggregator Down Detector corroborated the issues, with outages most prominent in the UK, Western Europe and the North-Eastern part of the United States.
We were also able confirm the outage through members of the Trusted Reviews editorial team unable to get their Snapchat fix.
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For its part, Snapchat copped to the issue and said it was working on a fix.
Some Snapchatters are having trouble with the app. We're aware of the issue and working on a fix! We recommend staying logged into your account.
— Snapchat Support (@snapchatsupport) February 15, 2018
The outage came amid an uproar over a redesigned iOS app, which has users looking for ways to install the previous version. As of Tuesday this week, more than 725,000 users had signed a petition calling for Snap to reinstate the old design
#Snapchat down? pic.twitter.com/6qOK38T4Iq
— Arthur (@SkaneFR) February 15, 2018
Since Snapchat is down I’m expecting it to go back to the way it was before ??
— Anna Olawepo (@anna_olawepo) February 15, 2018
It’s clear that not all Snapchatters experienced the issues, with many tweeting they were still up and running despite the firestorm of tweets complaining about the outage.
When everyone is tweeting about #SnapchatDown but yours is still working pic.twitter.com/SYxeifeTcb
— Michael Newton (@fignewt94) February 15, 2018
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