Meta experienced a major incident on August 21, 2026 affecting Facebook Ads Manager — Ads Delivery, lasting 1h 49m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Facebook Ads Manager — Ads Delivery
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 21, 2026, 08:45 PM UTC
We are aware of an issue that may be impacting ad delivery. Our engineering teams are aware and are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
- resolved Aug 21, 2026, 10:34 PM UTC
We have recovered from an earlier outage impacting Ads Delivery, and services have now been restored. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused.