IonQ experienced a critical incident on July 19, 2026 affecting IonQ Forte, lasting 5h 14m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
IonQ Forte
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 19, 2026, 09:01 PM UTC
We’re currently experiencing an unexpected fault on Forte and the system will not be able to process jobs during this time. We will provide an update by 23:59 UTC tomorrow, 2026/07/20 at the latest, detailing the status of the investigation and an estimate for return to service.
- resolved Jul 20, 2026, 02:16 AM UTC
This fault has been resolved and the system is currently back to processing jobs.