TikTok is having a widespread outage and technical issues on January 25, 2026, and it’s not just you.

What’s going on today?

Many users across the U.S. are reporting that TikTok is partly or completely not working. Common problems people are seeing include:

  • App not loading or getting stuck on a blank screen.
  • Videos not posting or staying “in review” for a long time.
  • Videos showing 0 views even though likes or comments are coming in.
  • “For You” page not refreshing or only showing older content.

Outage trackers like Downdetector have logged more than 35,000–36,000 reports, with a big spike in the early morning hours.

Is TikTok down for everyone?

TikTok is not completely offline for every single user, but a large number of people in the U.S. (especially around major cities and the Northeast) have reported issues today.

Public forum posts show:

  • Creators saying their new videos are stuck in review and never go live.
  • Users noticing their feed is full of day‑old videos and no fresh uploads.
  • People trying basic fixes (log out, reinstall, phone restart) with no real improvement.

So if TikTok is not working for you on January 25, 2026, it’s very likely part of this broader outage rather than a problem specific to your account.

Why is this happening?

Right now, there is no official, detailed explanation from TikTok about the exact technical cause of today’s issues. News outlets and social posts confirm the outage but note that TikTok has not yet commented.

However, this outage is happening in the middle of some big changes for TikTok in the U.S.:

  • TikTok recently finalized a major deal to keep the app operating in the U.S. after years of political and legal pressure, including threats of a ban.
  • The deal shifts U.S. TikTok into a new American-based entity, with ownership shared by companies like Oracle and other investors, in order to address national security concerns.
  • New terms and conditions and structural changes for U.S. users took effect around January 22, 2026.

Some users on forums are speculating that back‑end changes related to this transition (infrastructure, moderation systems, or algorithms) could be contributing to the instability, but that’s speculation rather than confirmed fact.

What people are saying on forums

Public forum and social posts paint a picture of widespread but slightly chaotic disruption:

  • Creators are reporting “video stuck in review,” “no views,” and broken analytics in TikTok Studio.
  • Some users wondered if they were shadow‑banned or flagged for their content, but others with non‑political, ordinary content are having the same issues, which suggests a platform‑wide glitch, not targeted moderation.
  • On other social networks, hashtags like “TikTok down” and similar phrases are trending, with people sharing memes and complaints about not being able to scroll during a big winter storm day.

“My latest video has been stuck in review for over an hour and still hasn’t gone live. Is anyone else facing this problem?” – a typical forum post from this morning.

What you can do right now

These steps may help a little locally, but they probably won’t fully solve the problem until TikTok fixes things on their side:

  1. Check another network
    • Switch between Wi‑Fi and mobile data to rule out your local connection.
    • If both behave the same way (no feed refresh, 0 views, stuck uploads), it’s almost certainly TikTok’s servers.
  1. Restart and refresh
    • Close and reopen the app.
    • Log out and back in if you can.
    • Restart your phone. Forum users report trying these steps, but they only confirm that the problem is not on their device.
  1. Avoid spamming uploads
    • If your video is stuck “in review” or posts with 0 views, repeatedly deleting and re‑uploading probably won’t help while the outage is active.
 * Save your drafts and wait for stability to return.
  1. Monitor outage trackers and news
    • Sites that track service problems and major news outlets have already picked up today’s TikTok disruption and show when reports spike or start to drop again.

Is this related to a ban?

No, this does not look like a sudden ban or shutdown of TikTok in the U.S. Instead:

  • TikTok previously faced a real risk of being banned if it didn’t separate from its Chinese parent, ByteDance.
  • That risk has been addressed through a sale and restructuring; the app is intended to remain available in the U.S. under a new ownership structure.

So today’s issues are best understood as a major outage or technical disruption happening shortly after big structural and policy changes, not the app being permanently shut down.

TL;DR: TikTok is not working properly on January 25, 2026 because of a large, ongoing outage affecting tens of thousands of users in the U.S.; videos won’t post, feeds won’t refresh, and analytics are broken, and there is no confirmed technical cause yet, though it coincides with major U.S. restructuring and new terms for the app.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.