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Meta Facebook, Instagram Outage Hits Millions, Restores by 2:40 PM

7/19/2026

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Meta’s Facebook and Instagram services went offline on Sunday, returning 2:40 p.m. UTC.
Downdetector recorded the first user complaints at 12:30 p.m. in Pakistan before the outage spread internationally.
In the United States, users filed 4,808 Facebook and 2,829 Instagram outage reports and described login failures, white-screen errors and frozen Reels despite restarting devices or switching networks.
Meta has not issued a statement, leaving the cause of the outage unconfirmed.

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Story summary

Meta’s Facebook and Instagram services went offline on Sunday, returning 2:40 p.m. UTC.
Downdetector recorded the first user complaints at 12:30 p.m. in Pakistan before the outage spread internationally.
In the United States, users filed 4,808 Facebook and 2,829 Instagram outage reports and described login failures, white-screen errors and frozen Reels despite restarting devices or switching networks.
Meta has not issued a statement, leaving the cause of the outage unconfirmed.