Instagram down: glitch causes Reels and Stories outage for UK users

Instagram appears to be suffering from a sudden outage that means users can’t view Stories or Reels on the app.

Reports began to flood DownDetector at around 1.40pm on Thursday, June 23 as UK users started experiencing problems.

Reels, short TikTok-style videos within Instagram, don’t appear to be loading for some people.

Others confirmed on Twitter they couldn’t view their own stories.

‘Instagram is down right now, a lot of people can’t view their own stories!’ one user wrote in response to a query.