Zoom outage, October 2026: Service Degradation Affecting File Uploads and Downloads in Zoom Chat

Zoom reported and resolved an incident: Service Degradation Affecting File Uploads and Downloads in Zoom Chat. It lasted 16 minutes.

Resolved

From Zoom's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
16 minutes
Impact
none
Affected
File Transfers: File, Video, Pictures, Voice
  1. Investigating
  2. Identifiednot posted
  3. Monitoring
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

Zoom has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

How it was resolved

This incident has been resolved and the affected services have been restored.

Zoom's closing update

This incident on the Zoom status page

Timeline

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Zoom's official status page, in their words.

  1. monitoring

    On 10/10/2026, Between 06:12 UTC to 07:39 UTC, Users may have experienced issues with file upload and download functionality in Zoom chat This incident has been resolved and the affected services have been restored.

  2. resolved

    This incident has been resolved and the affected services have been restored.

What this means for a business (and what to check now)

  • Retry anything that failed during the 16 minutes.
  • Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
  • If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.

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