Check if Unsplash is down, official outages, user-reported issues, and outages map.
Unsplash is working normally
This chart displays the number of user-reported issues over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem. We only consider an issue widespread if there are multiple reports within a short timeframe. Sign up for free to see more Unsplash status data.
IsDown has tracked 58 incidents since started monitoring Unsplash status in March 2021. We collect data from 4522+ services, and normalize the data to give you a clear picture of the impact of the outage.
Date | Incident | Duration |
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Oct 09, 2025
12:03 PM UTC
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Minor
We are currently investigating the elevated error rates observed at our search cluster.
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about 4 hours |
May 20, 2025
07:44 AM UTC
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Minor
We are currently investigating this issue.
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about 11 hours |
May 19, 2025
04:47 PM UTC
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Minor
We are seeing performance degradation during search due to a database upgrade.
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about 5 hours |
Feb 06, 2023
04:41 PM UTC
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Minor
We are currently investigating this issue.
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43 minutes |
Nov 30, 2022
03:14 PM UTC
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Minor
API is currently experiencing intermittent elevated error rates and slow response times. We are c...
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about 22 hours |
Feb 24, 2022
04:57 PM UTC
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Minor
We are experiencing connectivity due to issues at our upstream hosting provider.
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about 1 month |
Apr 30, 2021
01:41 PM UTC
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Minor
We are currently investigating this issue.
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11 months |
Mar 17, 2021
04:38 PM UTC
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Minor
We are currently investigating this issue.
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about 1 year |
Mar 03, 2021
02:49 PM UTC
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Minor
We are currently investigating this issue.
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about 1 year |
Jan 26, 2021
05:42 PM UTC
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Minor
We are currently investigating this issue.
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about 1 year |
API Key Rejected.
Mandy - Unsplash.com won’t load on my desktop or phone..
- - Website is really slow then stopped loading. Thought it was my internet, now it's a blank white page..
Xavier - Unsplash's random images are returning a Heroku error..
Igor - https://source.unsplash.com/random?wallpapers - images are not loading. Giving an Application error (heroku error)..
Diogo - source.unsplash.com images are not loading, giving a heroku error.
Component | Status |
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API | OK |
Server Infrastructure | OK |
Search Infrastructure | OK |
Data Service | OK |
Image Service | OK |
Photo-sharing platform offering high-resolution images free to use, featuring robust search capabilities, API access, and data analytics with CDN support for fast content delivery.
Monitoring Unsplash since March 2021
Tracking 10 Unsplash services and regions
3 incidents in 2025
Unsplash isn't down. You can check Unsplash status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors Unsplash official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 0 outages reported.
Unsplash is currently operational. You can check Unsplash status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.
No, there is no ongoing official outage. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.
Currently there's no report of Unsplash being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.
IsDown monitors the Unsplash official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.
Unsplash last outage was on October 09, 2025 with the title "Partial search outage"
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