No service on the Internet is perfect and these may occasionally experience global outages that affect their users for a limited period of time. Meta is one of them, and while there have been setbacks across the platform, the company’s three biggest apps, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, have also been affected.
If for some reason you’re having problems with the Facebook app and don’t know if it’s because the service is down, don’t worry. In this article we will help you confirm your doubts or find out if your mobile phone is failing.
How to find out if Facebook has disappeared
When Facebook goes off, the signs are clear. You try to access the app or page with your account, and it never loads. Failures can be small, although they are significant. You can’t send your comments or replies, you can’t upload any publications, or you simply have a blank screen that should be part of your home.
If you’re running into this, you can verify that it’s Facebook itself by following the very simple steps we’ll explain here.
Check your internet connection: Make sure the network you are connected to is working. You can try it by switching to another WiFi network or using your data. Check if the problem is not caused by other applications: If Facebook is down, Instagram and WhatsApp are also in trouble. Check out these apps and Then open other non-meta (X/Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, etc.), to make sure they continue to work and it’s not your cell phone that’s at fault. Look at the trends on X (Twitter): even if Facebook is cut off globally, you’ll definitely be talking about it there. You can search by trends or directly by typing “Facebook” in the search bar. Another option is to use the hashtag #Facebookdown, which is often used when the service is down. Off to the service? Go: There is an almost definitive way to go about checking Facebook outages. Pages dedicated only to reporting the status of applications in real time. Is the most popular service missing? You can find out if the application has been deleted by going to the Facebook section. You can also see which regions in particular are experiencing service outages.
Other options similar to the previous point are pages like Outage.Report and Downdetector. They do the same by receiving reports from different users around the world to notify them of service outages.
All you can do if Facebook is down is just wait. Most likely, the developers will do their best to fix the cause of the error, to restart the service.
If the problem you are having is with something specific, you can review our tutorials, attacking every error that occurs in the application, when Facebook does not load images or when comments do not load.
