Claude (Anthropic) outage on September 16, 2026: Issues with Google Play subscriptions
Claude reported an incident affecting Claude (Anthropic) for 33 minutes on 16 September 2026, from 16:18 to 16:51 UTC.
Resolved
Official incident reported by Claude
- Started
- 16:18
- 16 Sep 2026 UTC
- Resolved
- 16:51
- 16 Sep 2026 UTC
- Duration
- 33m
- 33 minutes
- Impact
- -
- as rated by Claude
- Updates
- 2
- posted by Claude
Timeline
All times UTC.
Official incident from Claude
Issues with Google Play subscriptions
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Official
Identified
We are aware of an issue affecting users interacting with subscriptions via Google Play, such as when creating a new subscription on Android devices. Google has confirmed an issue with Google Play, and we are awaiting their further updates.
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Official
Resolved
This issue has been resolved.
"Official" rows are quoted from Claude's public status page, status.claude.com. Very long posts are shortened.
What our checkpoints saw
HostTracker's checkpoints, which test claude.ai from several locations, recorded no outage of 5 minutes or longer during this incident. A provider can report a problem that affects only some features, regions or accounts, which a check of the main address does not see. The live Claude (Anthropic) status shows what our checks see right now.
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