What should I do if Netflix is down for me?

Try a different title before assuming the service is down. A single video that will not start is usually a rights or encoding problem with that title, not an outage. Test the browser and the TV app separately. Living-room apps ship on their own release schedule and break independently of the website. Restart the streaming device rather than the app. Set-top boxes and smart TVs hold stale DNS and tokens for far longer than a phone does. Turn off any VPN. Streaming services actively block known VPN exit nodes, and the resulting error looks identical to an outage.

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Is Netflix down right now?

No, it’s up.

Netflix appears to be up and running normally.

checked 2026-09-08 03:40 UTC

responded in 344ms

HTTP 200

Over the last 7 days, Netflix has answered our automated checks with 100.00% availability and a typical response time of ~407 ms. No outages have been recorded in the last 90 days.

Netflix streams films and series to browsers, phones, consoles and TVs, with playback, the catalogue and billing running as separate systems. An incident usually shows up as titles refusing to start rather than the site failing to load.

Is Netflix down for everyone or just you?

Our automated checks are reaching Netflix normally right now, and it answered our last one in 344ms. That makes any trouble you are hitting more likely to be local to your connection, account or network than a full outage, which usually means you can fix it from your end.

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Netflix response time (last 24h)

Last 24h

peak 1022 ms

Netflix incident history (last 90 days)

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No incidents in the last 90 days, from our checks or Netflix’s own status page.

Netflix uptime

100.00%
7 days: 99.97%
30 days: 99.97%
90 days

Measured since 2026-08-21. Windows reaching further back are averaged over the 19 days we watched, not the full period. Counts our own checks. Days Netflix reported an incident are coloured in the timeline above but do not change this figure.

What to do if Netflix is down for just you

Try a different title before assuming the service is down. A single video that will not start is usually a rights or encoding problem with that title, not an outage.
Test the browser and the TV app separately. Living-room apps ship on their own release schedule and break independently of the website.
Restart the streaming device rather than the app. Set-top boxes and smart TVs hold stale DNS and tokens for far longer than a phone does.
Turn off any VPN. Streaming services actively block known VPN exit nodes, and the resulting error looks identical to an outage.

Frequently asked questions

Netflix appears to be up and running normally. Last checked 2026-09-08 03:40 UTC.

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