Meta-owned photo and video-sharing app Instagram was down for several minutes on Saturday, rendering thousands of users globally unable to access the platform

More than 6,000 users in India reported issues with accessing the platform at the peak of outage at around 12:08 PM today.

Of these, 57% of these complaints were about Instagram's feed, 33% of users reported issues with accessing the app and 10% of users said they were facing server connection issues.

Several users turned to social media platform X to vent out their frustration as they were unable to login in to the app, with many complaining Instagram's short-video platform Reels failed to load and began displaying error messages.