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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
August Graham & Caitlin Griffin

TikTok not working: Users struggle to load videos as the app currently experiences issues

If you were on TikTok today, you may have noticed a massive problem in the app. Users of the social media site have reported issues such as being unable to watch any videos as they are not loading correctly.

Messages appeared on screen for those having issues with the popular social platform which said "couldn't load video" as they tried to use the app.

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The Down Detector website which is known for tracking outages on popular sites such as TikTok, Instagram and Twitter, said that it had received around 8,500 reports of outages, starting at around 10am UK time.

Not everyone is experiencing issues however, as other users both on app and using the desktop version were able to access the app as normal.

It was initially unclear what had caused the outage. TikTok could not immediately be contacted for comment as its website appeared to be having problems.

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