When Will Snapchat Be Fixed Today? How Long the App Could Be Down

When a social media app goes down, even briefly, users flock to complain.Content creators aren’t able to post, and businesses can’t share their typical information.

An outage, therefore, often causes widespread panic until it’s resolved.And today, October 20, 2025, Snapchat went down in the early morning hours.

Since the company informed users it was “aware” of the problem, when will it be fixed? Below, learn what we know so far about Snap’s widespread outage and how long it could take to restore the app.Is Snapchat Still Down Today? Snapchat is still down for some users at the time of publication.

It all started in the early morning hours on October 20, 2025, and the company acknowledged the issue on X.com at 7:58 a.m.ET.

“We’re aware that some Snapchatters are having issues,” Snapchat’s customer support account tweeted.It advised users to “hang tight” and assured them that they were “looking into it!” According to Snapchat’s X account, the company was still encouraging commenters to DM the company about issues they were having at around 10:00 a.m.

ET.When Will Snapchat Be Fixed Today? Snapchat is currently working on the issue, so it’s unclear when exactly all users will be able to access their accounts and use the app.

However, the number of reported problems on Downdetector decreased from 22,000 to roughly 10,000 by 9:00 a.m.ET.

Since the app’s shutdown appears to have happened at the same time as the AWS outage, Snapchat might not be back up until later in the day on October 20.According to Graeme Bragg, a computer networking expert from the University of Southampton, Amazon “resolved” the “underlying issue” behind its online errors but informed users that it “will take some time to propagate across the internet.” “Amazon’s servers also have a backlog of requests to work through, so it’s likely that we will see some disruption for the rest of the day,” Bragg continued, per Th...