Canva Down: Users Not Able To Save Their Designs For Hours
Canva outage is affecting people from starting their work day and in some regions people looking to end their work and shut down their systems.
Canva, the creative platform has been unavailable for the last few hours on Tuesday morning. Many users are having issues with saving their designs and even view their work on the website. The company has shared its official status with a post on X and even started an incident report for the outage which started on early Tuesday for users.
The current status suggests Canva has found a series of issues like:
Users are unable to view or save changes to designs
Users of CanvaAI making general knowledge queries or how to use Canva features may see failure messages
Realtime comments may not be working, and will need to refresh the page to see new comments
Application Notification may not be working, and users will need to refresh page to see new notifications
Timer and follow user on designs may not be working
At the time of writing, Canva was available once again and people are able to save and edit their designs on the platform.
We're on it! We're working as quickly as we can to get things back up and running. Check https://t.co/fluLX6fxwP for updates. Thank you! pic.twitter.com/IQGVtLeAYs — Canva (@canva) July 8, 2025
The Downdetector platform did not show massive reports from users in India but it confirms that 64 percent of the complaints are related to Canva running on the web and only 9 percent facing issues with the app. The outage seems to have affected people in the US far more with more than 600 outage reports from users in the region.
Fair to say that losing Canva this early in the morning will hamper productivity and most people in the US have to wait for their work day to end.
somebody tell me if canva is down b4 i lose my whole entire mind ..— Shennelly Ann (@ShennellyAnn) July 8, 2025
Canva recently announced that it has garnered 200 million monthly active users and continues to grow rapidly from its previous user base of 115 million users in the last couple of years. The company has recently made acquisitions of AI startups to build its suite of features and tools to entice more people to buy its premium offerings
Canva is the latest platform to team with Google for the Veo 3 AI model that lets you generate videos with audio using text prompts. The company has confirmed that using Veo 3 you can generate an 8-second video clip with audio in sync. Google unveiled the new video generation model at the I/O 2025 last month and it claims to offer high-quality visuals with ambient sound using basic prompts.
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