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

== Timeline ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Time (approx.)
!Event
!Notes
|-
|February 17, 2026 ~8:00 p.m. ET (~7:00 a.m. +06 Feb 18)
|Outage begins
|Reports spike on Downdetector; blank homepages reported globally
|-
|~8:13–8:29 p.m. ET
|Peak reports
|>300,000 US reports; >8,000 for YouTube TV
|-
|~9:00–10:00 p.m. ET
|YouTube acknowledges and explains cause
|Partial fixes (e.g., homepage partially restored); full fix in progress
|-
|~10:15 p.m. ET (~9:15 a.m. +06 Feb 18)
|Official resolution announced
|All platforms confirmed back to normal
|-
|February 18, 2026 (ongoing)
|Residual issues for some users
|Cleared via cache refresh or app restart in most cases
|}
Times are approximate and converted roughly to Dhaka local time (+06).