Head to the Play Store, the App Gallery or the App Store (depending on your phone) and search for app updates.
You can usually do this by opening your app switcher (tap the square navigation button at the bottom of the screen or swipe up and hold on Android) and swiping Snapchat up to dismiss/close it. Then open Snapchat again and see if the issues you were experiencing persist. Close Snapchat and restart itįirst things first, close Snapchat on your phone, by which we mean, exit out of the app and kill the application fully. Thankfully, there are still a few simple actions you can take that might rectify the situation. If no other users are reporting issues, there’s been no acknowledgement of problems directly from Snapchat and the likes of DownDetector report that all systems are operational, then there’s a strong chance any Snapchat issues you might be experiencing are local to you and your device. You can read our guide on why this keeps happening if you're interested - and this is likely far from the last such outage we'll see.What to do if Snapchat is only down for you There have been plenty of outages in 2021, as all the big websites seem to keep falling apart, and Snapchat is just the latest in a long line.
That's a big drop compared to the company's slow upward trend, though it's not a huge drop in the grand scheme of the company's performance. At the time of writing, several minutes after the company announced service was back to normal, shares were down 0.52%. Snapchat's stock started tumbling due to the outage - when trading opened in the US mid-way through the outage, Snapchat's share price was in freefall. Instagram is still going strong, so users might choose to switch back to the Facebook-owned photo app. Well, we don't imagine that boost will last long now that Snapchat has fallen apart. Just a week ago Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram all went down, which is noteworthy given the latter is a big rival for Snapchat, due to it being another image-based social media platform.Īccording to Bloomberg (opens in new tab), Snapchat saw a huge boost in popularity after that outage - the site predicts that there was a 20% uptick in users, as many flocked to the snap-happy alternative.
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