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TL;DR
- AOL appears to be experiencing an outage.
- The outage has taken down Yahoo and Yahoo Mail as well.
Update: January 21, 2026 (10:44 AM ET): It appears that AOL, Yahoo, and Yahoo Mail are now starting to come back online.
Original article: January 21, 2026 (10:04 AM ET): Are you unable to access your Yahoo Mail account this morning? Don’t worry, everyone else is in the same boat today. It appears that AOL is currently experiencing an outage and that outage has taken down Yahoo’s services.