Later had 45 outages in the last 2 years totaling 669h 24m of downtime — averaging 1.8 incidents per month.
There were 45 Later outages since August 27, 2024 totaling 669h 24m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
Our team is aware of a widespread Meta outage impacting Instagram, Facebook, and Threads. As a result of this auto-publishing, analytics, and conversation data are currently unavailable. We are closely monitoring this situation and will provide updates as they are received.
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently investigating an issue impacting LinkedIn publishing and connections. As more information is made available, updates will be share here.
A fix for this issue has been released across the Later Social platform. Our teams are monitoring publishing success rate and connection statuses to confirm that full functionality has been restored.
This incident has been resolved, expected behaviour with LinkedIn connections and publishing via Later has been restored.
We are currently investigating an issue originating from Meta that is causing publishing failures for Instagram, Threads, and Facebook posts. Our team is actively looking into the situation and tracking the impact. We sincerely apologize for the disruption.
We are seeing improvement with Instagram and Threads publishing. Some users may still experience failures when publishing to Facebook due to ongoing issues with Meta’s API. Our team continues to monitor the situation closely while Meta works toward a full recovery. We will share further updates as more information becomes available.
Instagram, Threads, and Facebook publishing are operating as expected, and no further impact is anticipated. Thank you for your patience.
We are currently experiencing intermittent issues with publishing posts to Instagram and Threads that appears to be related to a partial disruption with the Meta API. While we are seeing minimal impact across our platform, we are continuing to monitor the situation closely and will provide updates as they become available.
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
This incident has been resolved. Performance publishing Instagram and Threads posts has returned to normal.
Our team has identified an issue where some TikTok posts showing 'Published' in Later are not showing up in TikTok. Our team is aware of the issue and is investigating. We appreciate your patience as this gets looked into, and hope to have more updates soon!
Our team has identified an issue where some TikTok posts showing 'Published' in Later are not showing up in TikTok. We have identified an issue with the TikTok API, and are working with their team to get this resolved! We appreciate your patience as this gets looked into, and hope to have more updates soon!
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently experiencing a partial disruption with the TikTok API. Post publishing may fail or be delayed, and analytics data collection may be incomplete, delayed, or temporarily unavailable. We are actively monitoring the situation and will restore full functionality as soon as TikTok resolves the issue. We will continue to share updates as more information becomes available.
This incident has been resolved.
We’re currently experiencing an issue impacting Instagram Reel & Stories publishing. Based on our investigation, this appears to stem from Meta’s API. We’re actively monitoring Meta for updates and will share more information as it becomes available. Earlier today, some users may have also experienced minor disruptions when logging into Later. This issue is now resolved. If you continue to experience any problems or have questions, please contact our support team through the chatbot on site.
We’re currently experiencing issues with publishing video posts to Instagram, including both Reels and Stories. This appears to be related to an ongoing issue with Meta, and we’re continuing to monitor the situation closely while awaiting their resolution. If you experienced any disruptions when logging into Later earlier today, please try clearing your browser’s cache.
We’re currently experiencing issues with publishing video posts to Instagram, including both Reels and Stories. This appears to be related to an ongoing issue with Meta, and we’re continuing to monitor the situation closely while awaiting their resolution. If you experienced any disruptions when logging into Later earlier today, please try clearing your browser’s cache.
We can confirm that publishing video posts to Instagram, including Reels and Stories, is now fully operational. Thank you for your patience while Meta addressed this issue.
We are currently investigating this issue.
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently aware of an issue regarding iOS notifications. Our team has identified the root cause and is working on a resolution.
The team has implemented a fix for iOS notifications and continues to monitor for any additional issues.
iOS notifications are now working as expected. Thank you for your patience.
TikTok's Publishing API is currently experiencing a partial outage. Our team is actively monitoring the situation.
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Tiktok's API has been restored.
Our teams identified an issue with publishing video pins to Pinterest where content was stuck in a publishing state or failed to publish entirely. Later's Engineers released a fix for this shortly after being discovered. Any impacted pins will be automatically re-queued for publishing within 24 hours of their scheduled publishing time. For any content that continues to fail, please reach out to our Support Team via the Later chatbot.
We are currently experiencing an issue collecting Instagram and Facebook analytics data for some of our users. Our team is actively investigating to determine the root cause.
Update 9:59PM PST: We believe this a result of errors when connecting to Meta APIs. We have reached out to their team directly to identify a solution. We are currently experiencing an issue collecting Instagram and Facebook analytics data for some of our users. Our team is actively investigating to determine the root cause.
Update 7:27am PST: Meta's APIs have recovered and Later's systems are currently working to process the backlog of analytics data caused by the disruption. We are actively monitoring the flow of data to ensure all available analytics are being pulled into Later as expected.
This incident has been resolved.
Cloudflare is currently experiencing an outage that is impacting various functionality within Later Social. Our teams are continuing to monitor for updates from their team and will share more information as it is received. To stay up to date, please see their status page here-h ttps://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Cloudflare has made changes to restore certain services and are continuing to work on ensuring al functionality is working as expected once again. We are seeing improvement in platform functionality and will be monitoring for further updates. For the most up to date status from Cloudflare, please see their status page here- https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Cloudflare's Team is continuing to monitor their changes as systems make a full recovery. We are still seeing intermittent issues within certain areas of Later while this is ongoing. More information on the current status can be found within Cloudflare's status page here- https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ Thank you for your continued patience.
This incident has been resolved.
Our team is aware of an issue with the Facebook/Meta API that is preventing scheduled Facebook Reels from publishing. Our team is currently monitoring the situation and has a ticket open with Meta about the issue. We hope to have further updates soon! For any affected Facebook Reels, Later will continue attempting to publish until this issue is resolved by Meta. Thank you for your patience, and we hope to have more updates soon!
Update 10:00 PM PST: Meta has not yet provided a resolution. We will continue to monitor and provide an update once we receive more information. Thank you again for your patience.
Update 5:30am PST: This issue appears to be widespread across the Facebook API, several other Development Teams have reported identical behaviour to Meta. We are continuing to monitor for further updates and will share new information as it is received. Thank you for your continued patience and understanding.
Our teams are seeing the majority of Facebook Reels publishing successfully once again and will be monitoring to ensure that expected functionality has been restored in full. Thank you for your continued patience!
This incident has been resolved.
Our team is actively investigating the issue. We are working to identify the root cause and will provide updates as soon as more information becomes available. Thank you for your patience.
We have identified the root cause of the issue and are working on a resolution. Our team is assessing the next steps, and we will provide further updates as we make progress. Thank you for your patience.
This incident has been resolved.
Earlier today AWS issues caused disruptions across some Later functionality, including Link in Bio, media uploads, and analytics collection. Services are recovering, and everything is expected to return to normal soon.
AWS continues to restore service functionality, and we’re seeing ongoing recovery across Later features including Link in Bio, media uploads, and analytics collection. We’ll continue to monitor until all systems are fully stable.
AWS reported that they resolved increased error rates and latencies at 3:53 PM PST. We've monitored our platform since then and have confirmed all functionality is restored.
Our teams are aware of an issue that is causing intermittent failures when publishing LinkedIn video posts. We are currently conducting an initial investigation into this and will share updates here as available.
Our Engineering Team has released a fix for this issue as of 10:00am PST and are monitoring to ensure all LinkedIn video posts are publishing as expected.
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently investigating reports that some users are not able to log in to Later Social (app.later.com) and are getting a "We're sorry, but something went wrong" error. We will update this incident as we learn more. We hope to have this resolved ASAP! Thank you for your patience.
We have identified the issue with logins not working on app.later.com, and have resolved the issue! If you have experienced this issue, please try refreshing app.later.com, and signing in again.
At approximately 6:30am EST this morning, our teams were made aware of publishing issues to Instagram and Facebook via their respective APIs. We are currently investigating the root cause of this and will share further updates here as received. At this time, Notification Publishing for Instagram is unaffected and can be used to send content to the platform.
We are monitoring this issue and working with Meta. Please login to Facebook directly. If you see an "enhanced account security" message there please follow the prompts and then refresh your Facebook/Instagram connection in Later to resume publishing.
Meta has released a fix for this issue and we are currently monitoring to ensure all is working as expected once again. If you continue to encounter issues, please refresh your connection to Facebook and/or Instagram within Later.
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently aware of an issue preventing some Creators from applying to or managing Campaigns. Our team is actively investigating, but please contact our support team via the Help link in the sidebar if you believe you are impacted.
We’ve identified the root cause and have successfully implemented a fix for most users. If you’re still experiencing problems applying to or managing campaigns, please report the issue via the chatbot in the bottom-right corner of your screen.
We have deployed a fix and this is now working for most users. Still having issues? Let us know through our chatbot.
After monitoring, we’re confident the fix has resolved the majority of campaign application issues.
Our teams are aware of an issue with Custom Analytics dashboards not loading as expected within Later. This is currently being investigated and more information will be shared here as available. For further updates, please visit https://status.later.com/
The root cause of this issue has been found to be
Our teams are aware of a significant delay in loading times for Later Social and are currently investigating. Further updates will be shared here as they are made available.
Our teams are aware of a potential delay in loading times for Later Social and are currently investigating. Further updates will be shared here as they are made available.
Cloudflare is currently experiencing an issue with some of their servers, which our team has identified as the root cause of slow loading times with some Later users. They have acknowledged the issue, and are working on a fix - updates for this can be found here: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ Our team is monitoring this issue, and will provide updates as we get more details!
This incident has been resolved. Cloudflare has fixed the issue, and all systems are operational!
We’re currently experiencing an issue with publishing posts across all platforms. Our team is investigating this now. Updates will be available here as soon as we know more. Thank you for your patience.
We identified an issue that caused post publishing to fail between approximately 4:39 PM and 5:19 PM PT. The issue has since been resolved, and publishing is now working as expected. We are continuing to monitor to ensure stability before marking this incident as fully resolved.
This incident has been resolved.
We are aware of an issue within X's API that is causing connections and posts to fail and are currently monitoring for further information from X. Any updates will be shared here as made available.
X has acknowledged degraded performance across their API and are investigating. We are continuing to monitor for further updates. More information can be found on X's status page at https://docs.x.com/status
This incident has been resolved.
Our team has been made aware of an issue where users are unable to update their payment details within Later. This may affect some users' ability to change their paid plan, start new trials, or update their credit card information within the Later app. We are currently investigating this issue and hope to have an update soon!
This issue has now been resolved!