Image Credit: Getty Images When a social media app goes down, even briefly, users flock to complain. Content creators aren't able to post, and businesses can't share their typical information. An outage, therefore, often causes widespread panic until it's resolved. And today, October 20, 2025, Snapchat went down in the early morning hours. Since the company informed users it was "aware" of the problem, when will it be fixed? Below, learn what we know so far about Snap's widespread outage and how long it could take to restore the app.