Claude was down — here's everything we know

It's not deja vu — Claude was having some issues again the morning of April 15, 2026, with Anthropic confirming an active disruption causing 'Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code.' The company first confirmed issues at 10:53 AM ET, and then issued a fix at 11:03 AM ET, but after a recovery, it wrote "Claude.ai and Platform are down" as of 11:40 AM ET, before finally marking the full incident as resolved at 1:42 PM ET.

Down Detector reports matched up with the up-and-down issues and, at its peak, showed over 5,100 reports. Both my colleague and I encountered issues with using Free and Pro Claude accounts on both desktop and mobile as well. Anthropic's given the all-clear now, and services have returned, but ahead you can read our live reporting on the issues that impacted Claude.