News > Social Media Instagram Comes Back Online After Hours-Long Outage The outage appears to have mostly affected India and other countries By Joshua Hawkins Joshua Hawkins Twitter Freelance Technology Reporter Full Sail University Josh Hawkins is a freelance writer for Lifewire who loves writing about the latest tech and gadgets that help make people’s lives easier. As an avid gamer and VR enthusiast, he also enjoys diving deep into the technology that helps bring those kinds of experiences to life. lifewire's editorial guidelines Updated on September 2, 2021 12:10PM EDT Fact checked by Rich Scherr Fact checked by Rich Scherr Twitter University of Maryland Baltimore County Rich Scherr is a seasoned technology and financial journalist who spent nearly two decades as the editor of Potomac and Bay Area Tech Wire. lifewire's fact checking process Tweet Share Email Tweet Share Email Social Media Mobile Phones Internet & Security Computers & Tablets Smart Life Home Theater & Entertainment Software & Apps Social Media Streaming Gaming An outage Wednesday night led to multiple hours of downtime for some Instagram users. During the overnight, Instagram suffered multiple hours of outages across several countries. Still, according to Android Police, the outage appears to have mostly affected India, with users in countries like the United States and Germany remaining mostly unaffected by it. Solen Feyissa / Unsplash Down Detector, a website that gathers reports of outages for various websites first reported major outages on the platform around 10 or 11 p.m. PT. While the issues seem to have been resolved at this time, it does look like users suffered from the downtime for multiple hours, with reports surging early this morning around 4 a.m. PT. While the outages appear to have been resolved at this time, some users still are reporting issues accessing the website. Tweets also continue to appear in the #instagramdown search on Twitter, where users still are reporting problems accessing their accounts and feeds. Instagram also has acknowledged the issues on Twitter and has said that it is looking into it at this time. Other Facebook-owned applications, such as WhatsApp and Facebook, itself, appear to have been unaffected by the outages. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day Email Address Sign up There was an error. Please try again. You're in! Thanks for signing up. There was an error. Please try again. Thank you for signing up! Tell us why! Other Not enough details Hard to understand Submit