Critical incident

Later: Meta services are experiencing a widespread outage

Affected: Instagram, Facebook

Current status of Later: Operational — live Later status

Timeline

1. Jun 12, 2026, 14:10 UTC
   investigating
   Our team is aware of a widespread Meta outage impacting Instagram, Facebook, and Threads. As a result of this auto-publishing, analytics, and conversation data are currently unavailable. We are closely monitoring this situation and will provide updates as they are received.
2. Jun 12, 2026, 14:27 UTC
   monitoring
   Our team is aware of a widespread Meta outage impacting Instagram, Facebook, and Threads. As a result of this auto-publishing, analytics, and conversation data are currently unavailable. We are closely monitoring this situation and will provide updates as they are received.
3. Jun 12, 2026, 14:31 UTC
   monitoring
   Our team is aware of a widespread Meta outage impacting Instagram, Facebook, and Threads. As a result of this auto-publishing, analytics, and conversation data are currently unavailable. We are closely monitoring this situation and will provide updates as they are received.
4. Jun 12, 2026, 17:40 UTC
   monitoring
   We’re seeing recovery across Facebook and Threads, but some Instagram functionality remains impacted. Our team continues to monitor the situation closely while Meta works toward full recovery. We will share further updates as more information becomes available.
5. Jun 12, 2026, 19:41 UTC
   resolved
   This incident has been resolved.

Updates as published by Later (original).