If you’re trying to play online games on your Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One, or even Xbox 360 right now, you might be running into some issues, as Xbox confirmed there was a “major” Xbox Live outage on its status page as of 6:57PM ET.
“You may not be able to sign-in to your Xbox profile, may be disconnected while signed in, or have other related problems,” according to a status message. “Features that require sign-in like most games, apps and social activity won’t be available.” For players who could sign into their accounts on consoles, online-connected games couldn’t connect and showed their own Xbox sign-in errors, while other people reported issues with features like remote play.
“We are aware that users may be unable to sign in at the moment,” according to a 7PM ET post from Xbox’s Support account. “While our teams investigate, follow along here and on our status page.”
DownDetector currently notes more than 7,000 user reports of problems.
We are aware that users may be unable to sign in at the moment. While our teams investigate, follow along here and on our status page. https://t.co/PzAdjUXVXr
— Xbox Support (@XboxSupport) July 18, 2024
This outage follows another from earlier this month that prevented users from playing online games and lasted several hours.