HBO Max is down — and its very bad month continues
Yes, it looks like HBO Max is down. We’re guessing that this is not how WarnerMedia execs wanted to spend one of their Friday summer afternoons, dealing with yet another headache.
Not only have multiple Tom’s Guide staffers found an error — “Can’t Connect: We’re having issues connecting to HBO Max right now. Please try again.” — greeting them when they sign on for the service, but DownDetector, and tweeters everywhere are joining in the conversation.
HBO Max itself even acknowledged the issue, tweeting “We’re aware some customers may be experiencing issues streaming #HBOMax and appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this as quickly as possible.”
This outage comes less than one month after HBO Max crashed as the Mare of Easttown finale started on May 30. But that was just the beginning of a bad stretch of time for HBO Max users.
Then, in early June, the HBO Max tvOS app for the Apple TV became incredibly buggy and hard to use for many customers. Basic functions such as fast-forward, pause, and rewind were rendered barely usable, according to reports. We soon learned that this was due to the release of a very buggy update.
