Mitja Rutnik / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Anthropic’s Claude AI was down for some users the morning of May 13.
- The company’s issue tracker now says all Claude systems are operational.
Update, May 13, 2026 (10:543 AM ET): As of just before 11 AM ET, Claude’s status tracker now reports that the service is operational. Our original post about the outage appears below.
Original article, May 13, 2026 (09:24 aM ET): Anthropic’s Claude AI seems to be experiencing an outage this morning. According to Claude’s status page (and our own experience here at Android Authority), the chatbot is giving a lot of people trouble right now, and the company is investigating the cause.
Claude’s official status tracker says that the AI is “experiencing elevated error rates,” with error messages on our end saying things like “This conversation could not be found,” and “This isn’t working right now. You can try again later.”
Tushar Mehta / Android Authority
Anthropic says it began looking into issues around 8:21 AM, Eastern time. An update issued about a half hour later says that the investigation is ongoing. Downdetector shows a spike in error reports around 8:30 this morning, following spikes last night and Tuesday afternoon.
We’ll update this post with more information when we have it.
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