Is TikTok Down Right Now?

How this checker works

Two real tests run the moment you open this page. Famoid's servers request tiktok.com and record whether TikTok's servers answer, with which HTTP status, and how quickly. At the same time, your browser makes a lightweight request to TikTok's domain — that part tells you whether your connection reaches TikTok at all. The chart below adds history: our monitors probe TikTok around the clock, so a hiccup shows up as either a blip or a pattern.

When both come back green, TikTok is reachable globally and from your device, and any trouble you're seeing is worth debugging locally. If only the browser test fails, an ad-blocker or privacy extension is the usual culprit, which is why the verdict leans on the server check. No login, no username, nothing stored.

Down for everyone, or just you?

• Run the check above first. If both vantage points fail, it's TikTok's problem, and your best move is patience.
• Swap networks. Wi-Fi to mobile data, or the other way. TikTok is unusually CDN-heavy, and some routes fail while others work fine.
• Try the website. Open tiktok.com in a private browser tab. Website fine, app broken? The app is the suspect, not the platform.
• Ask a friend on a different carrier. One independent confirmation beats an hour of guessing.
• Consider where you are. Schools, offices, and some public networks block TikTok on purpose, and its availability genuinely varies by country and carrier. If TikTok never works on one specific network, that network is the answer.

Common signs TikTok is actually down

• The For You feed spins endlessly and pull-to-refresh does nothing, on every network you try.
• "No network connection. Please try again later." while every other app online works — TikTok's catch-all error for failed requests.
• Videos won't play but comments and profiles load — a classic partial outage on TikTok's video delivery.
• Uploads freeze at the same percentage for everyone, no matter the file.
• Messages fail to send in every conversation at once.
• Live streams buffer or drop across many creators simultaneously.

TikTok is up, but not for you? Try these fixes

1. Force-close TikTok and reopen it. Swipe it away fully, don't just switch apps.
2. Clear TikTok's cache from inside the app: Profile → menu (☰) → Settings and privacy → Free up space → Clear cache. TikTok's cache grows huge and corrupts more often than most apps'.
3. Update the app. Outdated versions start failing quietly after server-side changes.
4. Switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data. If one works, the other network's route (or its TikTok policy) is the problem.
5. Turn off your VPN. A VPN can land you on a blocked or throttled IP range, or serve you the wrong region entirely.
6. Restart your phone. Stale DNS and stuck radios outlive every in-app fix.
7. Reinstall only as a last resort — and read the drafts warning below first.

What to do while TikTok is down

• Don't log out. Logging out during an outage can strand you at a login screen that won't work until recovery — and repeated failed logins can trigger security checks.
• Never type your TikTok password into a third-party "status" or "fix" tool. Telling you whether TikTok is down requires no access to your account. This page never asks.
• If an upload was mid-flight, keep the video. Re-post after recovery rather than trusting the stuck upload to finish.
• Check back here. The "Check again" button re-runs both probes live, so you'll know the moment TikTok answers again.

Will an outage hurt your followers or views?

No. Follower counts and view numbers that stall during an outage are a display-sync issue and correct themselves after TikTok recovers — judge nothing until a few hours have passed. Once it's back, you can confirm your live numbers with our free TikTok counter, no login required. And if the numbers were standing still long before any outage, that's a growth problem rather than a technical one — our TikTok services exist for exactly that.