Instagram Outage Reports Drop Significantly in the U.S., Downdetector Shows

Instagram’s outage incidents in the U.S. saw a sharp decline on Wednesday morning, according to Downdetector.com, signaling that the issue affecting many users had largely been resolved. By 9:32 a.m. ET, only 619 outage reports were logged, down from a peak of 11,255 earlier in the day. Downdetector tracks service disruptions by gathering status reports from various sources, though the actual number of affected users may differ.

Meta, the parent company of Instagram, did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding the outage. The platform’s services, including Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, have experienced disruptions on multiple occasions in the past year, with a major global outage in March.