Instagram and Facebook down: App not working amid major outage

Instagram and Facebook have gone down in a major outage.

The apps refused to work as expected. On Instagram, for instance, new pictures failed to load and profiles were not showing as usual.

The issues did not appear to be affecting the whole of the apps, however. Some parts of Instagram did loads as expected, for instance, but would then show an error message.

The issues began around 5pm eastern time, or 10pm in the UK, according to tracking website Down Detector. It showed a sudden surge in error reports at that time, with problems reported right across the world.

Meta has not yet commented on or confirmed the reported outage.

One user inquired, " Nothing will load on my account???? but when i switch over to another one it does load??? is instagram down or did they ban my account?"

Another commented, "I was posting a video and I'm like I hope I'm not banned lol so you guys are experiencing the issue too like it loads the feed kind of I think like their servers crashed or something."

A third user added, "Wait... did everyone just get abruptly logged out of Facebook, Instagram and threads, or did I literally just get hacked? Tried lreloading pages and it’s giving me a blank white screen and a brutal "something went wrong " loop. Facebook down it seems."