If you just tried to open Instagram on your phone or computer, only to find that nothing would load, don’t worry: It’s not your wifi, nor is Verizon experiencing another outage. The fault instead lies with Meta, as Instagram is currently down. That’s according to Downdetector, owned by Lifehacker parent company Ziff Davis, which shows over 2,000 user reports of issues with Instagram at the time of this writing.
The issues seem to affect Instagram in all forms. While the mobile app was working last time I checked, I couldn’t get it to load in Safari. That means you might not be able to check out posts, add new posts, or send and receive DMs—at least until Meta figures out what’s causing the issue.
Inevitably, of course, it will: Outages and downtime happen, though it seems this week they’re happening with increasing frequency. There was, obviously, Verizon (which the company attributes to a software issue), but also issues with Yahoo!, X, and Microsoft 365. Something’s in the air this week, it seems. Whatever is going on with Instagram though, Meta will assuredly figure it in due time. Usually, these things are resolved pretty quickly, but if there’s a deeper issue, us Instagram users may have to go without the app for some time.
Original Source: https://lifehacker.com/tech/instagram-is-down-january-2026?utm_medium=RSS
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