It isn't just you who is having problems with the video sharing site on your phone.

There were reports of crashing problems for the app on the app store. As of 4 p.m., there were almost 8,000 reports on DownDetector. To find out how many people were hurting. Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis. I wasn't able to recreate the problem, but it was bad enough that YouTube had to issue a statement acknowledging the crashes and confirm that a fix was being worked on.

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The statement merely promised "updates soon" After it was posted, there were no updates to share. The team has been too busy working on the problem to discuss it in public.

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If all else fails, you can always pair text with an image or a Gif to get a lot of likes and followers. I'll miss that part of the company if it's taken over by Musk.