Is Facebook down?

Understanding Facebook availability

Facebook problems are not always a complete outage. The site may open while login, News Feed updates, messaging, notifications, posting, or media uploads are unavailable. One working feature does not rule out a partial Facebook service problem.

For the broadest service indication, compare your symptoms with Meta's official status information. Status information may not immediately show every regional, feature-specific, account-related, or newly developing issue. If Facebook works for people on another network or device and only your session is affected, a local or account-level cause is more likely.

Note the exact symptom and when it began. A blank page, repeated refreshes, failed login, missing content, timeout, or upload that remains pending can point to different parts of the service or connection path.

Troubleshooting Facebook problems

Check for a wider Facebook or Meta issue

• Review Meta's official status information.
• Compare the problem with reports from people using another network or region, where available.
• Test more than one Facebook function. A failure affecting login, loading, posting, or multiple devices is more consistent with a service-side incident than a single-browser problem.
• If Meta's status information shows no issue but reports are widespread, the problem may be regional, limited to one feature, or too recent to appear there.

Test the local connection

• Open several unrelated websites or services. If they also fail, investigate the Wi-Fi, mobile data, router, DNS, or broader network connection first.
• Try Facebook over another permitted network, such as mobile data instead of Wi-Fi. A change in results points toward the original network, filtering, DNS, or routing path.
• If Facebook alone times out while other sites work, continue with browser, app, and account checks rather than assuming the whole internet is unavailable.

Check the browser or mobile app

• Open Facebook in a private or incognito window. If it works there, an extension, stored cookie, cached data, or existing session may be interfering.
• Temporarily disable extensions that modify privacy controls, scripts, page content, or network requests, provided this is allowed on the device.
• Clear Facebook site data, or update and restart the mobile app. If the app fails but the website works, the app, device, or app-specific session is more likely to be involved.
• Test another supported browser or device. A failure limited to one browser or device usually indicates a local configuration issue rather than a complete Facebook outage.

Separate account and login problems from an outage

• If Facebook loads but sign-in fails, check the exact message. Credentials, security checks, account restrictions, or a stale session can affect login without making Facebook unavailable to everyone.
• Avoid repeated login attempts when the service is unstable. Save the message shown and compare a signed-out page or private browser window without repeatedly submitting credentials.
• A problem limited to posting, commenting, messaging, or uploading may be feature-specific or account-specific even when other Facebook functions work.

Interpret errors and integration symptoms

• HTTP 500 or 503 responses can indicate a temporary server-side availability problem. DNS failures, connection-refused errors, and timeouts can occur earlier between your device, network, and Facebook.
• If a proxy, firewall, VPN, workplace network, or security product is involved, test without it only when permitted by the relevant network policy.
• No separate Facebook API domain is listed for this service page. Do not assume that a website failure and an integration failure have the same cause; examine the affected product and its own response details.

If the problem continues, record the time, region, device, network, affected feature, and exact error text. These details help distinguish a continuing service incident from a local or account-specific failure.