Meta experienced a major incident on March 4, 2026 affecting Facebook Ads Manager — Ads Creation and Editing, lasting 13h 29m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Facebook Ads Manager — Ads Creation and Editing
Update timeline
- investigating Mar 04, 2026, 02:33 AM UTC
We are aware that some advertisers may be having trouble creating or editing their ads in Ads Manager. Our engineering teams are aware and are actively looking to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.
- resolved Mar 04, 2026, 04:03 PM UTC
We have recovered from an earlier outage impacting editing and creation in Ads Manager, and services have now been restored. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused.