UPDATE: This issue is now resolved! Please let us know if you're still seeing any loading or buffering issues. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi everyone, We've seen reports of loading issues with YouTube, rest assured we're working on a fix now! Here's what you might be seeing: Empty Homepage and error message Spinning wheel while scrolling on Shorts Hitting a dead end while scrolling on Shorts Let us know if you're experiencing any other types of issues, we'll provide updates here as soon as we have them. - TeamYouTube

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Nikki (TeamYouTube)

Google Employee•Original Poster

Mar 5, 2024

YouTube Loading Issues

Fixed

UPDATE: This issue is now resolved! Please let us know if you're still seeing any loading or buffering issues.

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Hi everyone,

We've seen reports of loading issues with YouTube, rest assured we're working on a fix now! Here's what you might be seeing:

Empty Homepage and error message
Spinning wheel while scrolling on Shorts
Hitting a dead end while scrolling on Shorts

Let us know if you're experiencing any other types of issues, we'll provide updates here as soon as we have them.

- TeamYouTube

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Last edited Mar 5, 2024

All Replies (84)

user1332728491

Mar 5, 2024

Every time it plays a video it instantly cuts to the end even if I never saw that video

User 4035601478195300335

Jul 24, 2024

I always experienced instantly cuts at the end of my videos. Though I new that was an error but, I don't know how to handle it.

I always pray for God intervention.

Blessings 💞

User 12478347431940769227

May 21, 2024

This is still an issue. I have had a video processing for almost 24 hours.

Henry Rodriquez III

May 27, 2024

It's been over an hour for me, something in the backend side of the house must be down.

User 12642987913213332728

May 21, 2024

Still seeing issues with loading/buffering errors...specifically, the spinning wheel at the bottom of comments that aren't loading.

User 7764862277877504028

May 28, 2024

Still having issue Error 404, can't perform...

an edit. Auto-correct put in an inappropriate word and I can't edit it.

And it's a long comment!

Yazz Casillas

Jul 4, 2024

me too, any solution?...

JB Lee

Jul 5, 2024

me too. Please fix this problem

User 2692919292026613281

Jun 18, 2024

Slightly annoying when you're watching a playlist. I wasn't so bad the last month or so, but this weekend has been woeful.

If I refresh the video page about 3-4 times it fully loads the page and the video plays normal until almost the end. It feels like I'm into an issue with the video preloading or I'm exhausting the loaded video cache per vid.

Either way, I hope you guys are getting close to resolving this! All the best!

Last edited Jun 18, 2024

D J 5871

Jun 18, 2024

Me too... Thought it was a computer virus or something. It's driving me nuts.

User 13311957083288232083

Jun 19, 2024

This issue is NOT resolved. Please revisit and fix, thank you.

Videos do not play. The page loads as expected, but then the video hangs there and never starts. Ads do the same thing, but I can skip them. The only thing that seems to work is to sit there and let the ads skip themselves until the video pops up and eventually starts playing.

User 12694390793079990126

Aug 4, 2024

Agreed. For me it seems to appear only in shorts, though.

User 5522782826469366426

Jun 22, 2024

Still facing the empty home page problem

W4kko

Jun 22, 2024

either doesn't load at all, or 1 video outta 10 loads...

1 0 6961

Jul 6, 2024

empty page, video wont load but the page tries to load over and over, only solution i found was to wipe cookies, but its ridiculous. this site is garbage,

nidoking042

Jun 23, 2024

This has been happening for weeks now, and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. Every video stops a few seconds after loading, without exception, and then nothing will load at all for anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes. Sometimes, I can refresh the page a few times and see whether the loading circle is gone - if it starts playing, it will usually continue for the rest of the video with no problems. But if I pause the video at all, it will play only what's buffered and then stop again. Live streams pause constantly and are unwatchable. I've checked my computer's performance monitor, and the only bottleneck is that there's no network data coming in. It looks like I'm being restricted in how much data I can use, but I don't have this problem on any other site.

panopticon

Jun 27, 2024

Hey, I've been having an issue where playback and loading is buggy or straight up not working on certain animated videos, please let me know about any fixes! (my phone is fine, it's just my pc and tv)

User 4727380146655368480

Jul 1, 2024

Video don't playing after ad.. yt hangs

User 1589446130502630463

Jul 5, 2024

I dont see a solution. it says fixed, but the how part is lacking

Arun S 5357

Jul 9, 2024

yes, still loading even when the speed test shows 500mbps....video loads also plays without sound

User 8487130140403659919

Jul 28, 2024

Still youtube is not working