Instagram seems to be facing server issues at the moment, causing problems for several users complaining that their app is down. According to the downtime tracking website Downdetector, the social media app started having problems today at 4:00 PM IST, and several users, including some in India, have also taken to Twitter to complain about the problem. At the moment, the Facebook-owned social media platform has yet to confirm the outage and the cause of the error remains unknown. Downdetector shows that several users are unable to update their news, while others face login issues. In particular, several Facebook-owned platforms such as WhatsApp, Messenger, and even Instagram faced a partial outage last week. Although the company quickly resolved the issue, the reason for the outage was not specified.
Currently the error appears to be in the Android version of the app, while the iOS version appears to be working without any errors. Twitter users claim that despite uninstalling the app, the problem seems to persist. “The app keeps crashing. At first I thought my phone was the problem, then I uninstalled the app and installed it again and it keeps crashing,” one user tweeted. Also, users with Android phones see this message ‘Instagram has stopped working’ or similar messages when scrolling through the news.
Last week, several Instagram users had stated that the DM feature in the app stopped on both Android and iOS devices. Many users living in Europe faced the outage, and users in India were largely unaffected. As mentioned, the current bug seems to be affecting some users in India as well. In other news related to the outage, Google services like Gmail, Drive, YouTube and more were down for many users around the world for approximately 45 minutes, earlier this week. The company had stated that the bug was caused by an “internal storage quota issue” handling authentication. During the outage, users had complained that they couldn’t use their services on desktop, Android, and iOS devices. Although some users had suggested workarounds with incognito mode, many were heavily affected for nearly an hour.
Meanwhile, Facebook has yet to share more details about the alleged bug affecting Instagram.
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