Claude is down for many —Anthropic says it's 'investigating' the outage

The increasingly popular AI assistant Claude has gone down for many today, with Anthropic confirming that it's "investigating" an issue.

The problems started at around 10.02am ET / 3.02pm BST, when a spike in reports appeared on Downdetector. At the time of writing, those reports are still climbing and have hit over 8.000 in the US.

The Claude Status page has confirmed a "elevated error rate" across models, but says "a fix is being implemented". Here's the latest news on Claude's issues today...

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2026-06-23T15:56:21.675Z

Claude is on the mend

I'm starting to feel like one of the last people who still has Claude issues, as Downdetector is showing a significant drop in reported issues — and it's now back for many others here at TechRadar.

That fix that Anthropic pushed out almost exactly an hour ago is seemingly doing the trick. And just as a I type, Claude has sprung back into life for me, albeit with a slight delay in its responses. It looks like this one's almost over, folks...

2026-06-23T15:36:32.396Z

Claude is still struggling for many

While the number of reported Claude issues on Downdetector is dropping — in the US, they're now at about the half the peak from an hour ago — thousands are still struggling to get it working, including many of us at TechRadar.

For me, there are some signs of life — rather than completely blanking my prompt or giving me a "this model isn't available right now" error message, Claude is now 'thinking' when I ask it something.

But that thinking time still ultimately goes nowhere, which suggests Anthropic's fix still isn't fully working — and the company indeed says that it's still "continuing to monitor for any further issues".

2026-06-23T15:25:18.156Z

Bigger than the last outage

We don't have to look back too far for the last significant Claude outage — that was just three weeks ago on June 2. But this one is definitely bigger.

Those previous issues were related to its latest Opus 4.6 model, but this outage is across all models and all Claude platforms — except for those fortunate to be on Claude for Government.

I don't know about you, but this feels like a good opportunity to check out the latest Prime Day deals in the US and UK's best Prime Day deals, too. Forgive me the plug, but a cut-price Ninja Slushi is looking very tempting right now while I wait for Claude to reboot...

2026-06-23T15:15:22.655Z

We're well over the hour mark

Claude is still very much down for me and thousands of others — and it's now well over an hour since the problems started at around 10.53am ET / 2.53pm BST.

The latest from Anthropic's status page is still that "a fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results'. So far that hasn't been reflected in the numbers, but in theory we should see an improvement pretty soon.

2026-06-23T15:07:10.239Z

Seeking solace in memes

Some Claude models are down, and I hope you aren’t too from r/ClaudeAI

As the Claude issues continue for many, Reddit is responding the only way it knows how — with comforting memes.

The could be promising news on the horizon, though — Anthropic's latest post on the Claude Status page (at 10.53am ET / 3.53pm BST) says that "a fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results".

That often means a swift improvement, but can also be a false dawn, so I'm keeping a close eye on my account in the hope that it'll be the former.

2026-06-23T14:57:32.203Z

This looks more worrying

While reports of Claude issues on Downdetector have dropped slightly in the last half an hour, they're still very high — and Anthropic's status page (above) is showing a "major outage" across all of its platforms, except Claude for Government.

That means Claude's chat interface, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and its API are all having issues right now, which makes this is a pretty broad outage affecting many.

2026-06-23T14:52:13.459Z

Is the fix working?

It's early days, but today's reported Claude issues have just taken a small dip on Downdetector — they're still high at over 6,000 in the US at the time of writing, but that's down from a high of 7,119 just over half an hour ago.

Hopefully, that's the work of Anthropic's engineers, with the latest post in Claude's Status page stating that "the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented".

It still isn't working for me, but the signs are promising that it'll spring back into life soon...

2026-06-23T14:45:24.161Z

Problems across all models

Today's Claude issues aren't restricted to just one model unfortunately — we're seeing issues across all models, and on both paid and free accounts.

Right now, Claude is either "contemplating" its answers indefinitely or telling us "this model isn't available right now". According to Downdetector, the issue is also affecting both the chat interface and Claude Code.

2026-06-23T14:39:45.866Z

Lots of red is never a good sign

This is the current situation on Anthropic's Status Page for Claude — there's good and bad news.

While there are indeed "elevated error rates" across "multiple models" on Claude, as I've also experienced, it seems the company has already got a fix in the pipeline.

Let's hope that means it gets resolved as quickly as the last outage we saw on June 2...