Editing YouTube down February 18 2026 Fix is Backup (section)

== Overview ==
The outage began in the evening of February 17, 2026 (US Eastern Time), which corresponded to the early morning/afternoon of February 18 in many Asian time zones, including Bangladesh (+06). Users reported:

* Blank or error-filled homepages
* Failure to load recommended videos or Shorts
* Problems with searches and feeds
* Login and playback issues on some platforms (especially YouTube TV)
* Individual direct video links often still worked, but the core discovery features were disrupted.

The outage was tracked by [[Downdetector]], which recorded a peak of over 320,000 user reports in the United States alone, with significant spikes in other countries including India, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and the Philippines.