"Reddit is currently experiencing a significant internal outage causing widespread service disruptions," reads a Downdetector summary (emphasis in original). "The impact is categorized as Very High, primarily affecting mobile app access (55%) and website connectivity (39%) ."

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Around 8:30 a.m. PT, the social platform Reddit began suffering an outage, with the main feed showing errors and over 5,000 reports on the outage tracking site Down Detector.

RedditStatus.com showed degraded site performance for desktop web use as well as native mobile apps. DownDetector had even more details. (Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis).

Verizon has acknowledged that customers around the country may see issues amid an outage on Wednesday, January 14. Customers are reporting the issues on Down Detector and social media sites like Reddit, noting that customers are seeing the "SOS" service status blocking them from making calls.

Reddit had a possible outage on Wednesday, Jan 14, with more than ___ users reporting an issue to Downdetector.

When iPhones aren’t connected to a cellular network, they will typically alert the user by giving an indication in the phone’s status bar. Those notifications usually say “No Service” or “Searching,” but your phone may also say “SOS” or “SOS only.”

A Verizon outage has taken out service to several areas in the US. Taking a look across the internet this morning reveals a major Verizon service outage throughout the US. Checking places like reddit or Downdetector show that there were hundreds of thousands of reports

Leaving Millions Offline Something unusual — and unsettling — happened on Tuesday, January 13, 2026: three widely used digital platforms all