{"id":1294,"date":"2025-09-27T03:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-blink-security-camera-app-was-down-but-amazon-rolled-out-a-fix\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T03:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:37:57","slug":"the-blink-security-camera-app-was-down-but-amazon-rolled-out-a-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-blink-security-camera-app-was-down-but-amazon-rolled-out-a-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blink security camera app was down, but Amazon rolled out a fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/8A0A0898.jpeg.webp?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The app for Amazon\u2019s Blink security cameras experienced an issue for a few hours Friday night prevented users from accessing their cameras, but Amazon has rolled out a fix, spokesperson Emma Daniels tells <em>The Verge<\/em>. Users on Amazon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazonforum.com\/s\/topic\/0TO6Q000000kQWFWA2\/blink-general-questions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general Blink support forum<\/a> and on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/blinkcameras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blink Cameras subreddit<\/a> reported issues accessing the app, with many running into a vague error with a 503 status code.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In a thread on Reddit with more than 150 comments, users from all over the US, including California, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, and Washington, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/blinkcameras\/comments\/1nrcqsc\/503_error\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported seeing<\/a> the 503 error. That thread was first posted at 4:54PM ET. Amazon\u2019s support forum had multiple threads flagging the 503 error, with threads starting to pop up late Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">My colleague Jen Tuohy is also had problems logging into the Blink app. I don\u2019t own any Blink cameras, but when I downloaded the app and tried to make an account, the app showed me an error message with a 403 status code. After the fix was rolled out, I was able to make an account without any problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Recordings and notifications were not affected by the issue, Daniels says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em><strong>Update, September 26th<\/strong>: Amazon says it rolled out a fix for the issue.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The app for Amazon\u2019s Blink security cameras experienced an issue for a few hours Friday night prevented users from accessing [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}