Meta incident

Ads Creation and Editing: Low disruptions

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Meta experienced a minor incident on October 16, 2025 affecting Facebook Ads Manager — Ads Creation and Editing, lasting 6h 30m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Oct 16, 2025, 08:26 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 16, 2025, 02:57 PM UTC
Duration
6h 30m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 16, 2025, 08:26 AM UTC

Affected components

Facebook Ads Manager — Ads Creation and Editing

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 16, 2025, 08:26 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.

  2. resolved Oct 16, 2025, 02:57 PM UTC

    We have recovered from an earlier outage impacting Ads Creation and Editing, and services have now been restored. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused.