TikTok USA is broken

January 26, 2026 Dominic Preston

TikTok has suffered from extensive problems on its first weekend after completing a transaction that changed the ownership of its US arm. According to Downdetector, the issues initially spiked in the early hours of Sunday morning, but many users, including editors here at The Verge, are still reporting errors.

TikTok has yet to confirm or comment on any issues more than a day after the troubles began, making it difficult to pin down the extent of the problems.

Many in the US have found it impossible to upload videos over the last day or so, which are sitting "under review" indefinitely. One video we uploaded from a US account last night ha …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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