Anthropic experienced a minor incident on March 22, 2026 affecting claude.ai, lasting 1h 59m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
claude.ai
Update timeline
- investigating Mar 22, 2026, 11:14 AM UTC
Since approximately 20:00 UTC / 13:00 PT on Friday, March 20, Claude.ai responses may appear to "hang" for around 5 seconds after the text has finished streaming before the message completes. The Anthropic API is not affected.
- identified Mar 22, 2026, 12:34 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- resolved Mar 22, 2026, 01:13 PM UTC
As of 13:02 UTC / 06:02 PT this incident has been mitigated.