"Is Snapchat down right now?" And "Snapchat down 2021" and many other queries were the searches many users of the social media app made on Google Search as millions of users experienced several issues.
Snapchat users complained of log-in issues, not being able to view stories or send messages, and a few other issues on the service.
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According to DownDetector which received over 39 thousand complaints, users began to experience issues around 11:42 UTC (+1) time, which lasted for over five hours.
In a tweet, the Snapchat Support Twitter account confirmed the issues while telling users to "hang tight" as they look into the issue.
We’re aware that some Snapchatters are having issues using the app right now - hang tight, we’re looking into it!
— Snapchat Support (@snapchatsupport) October 13, 2021
While the company didn't state the cause of the issues, the users hoped it wouldn't be a Facebook-level outage that seemed to take forever for it to be fixed.
For now, Snapchat services are slowly returning back and stats from DownDetector shows complaints from the site from dropped.
The issue has been fixed! If you're still having trouble, please let us know. Happy Snapping!
— Snapchat Support (@snapchatsupport) October 13, 2021