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99 App Outage Disrupts Rides Across Brazil as Company Begins Restoring Service

The platform confirms an unexpected interruption, reports gradual recovery after thousands of complaints, with no cause disclosed.

Overview

  • Users reported difficulty logging in, requesting rides and seeing locations load on both Android and iOS throughout Wednesday morning.
  • DownDetector logged more than 5,000 problem reports, with a peak around 8:35 a.m. local time after alerts began near 7:20 a.m.
  • Some passengers received messages such as “No results found when requesting the trip,” while others saw persistent loading or connection errors.
  • 99 told Valor Econômico that services are being reestablished gradually and that technical teams are working urgently to resolve the issue.
  • Drivers and couriers described lost income opportunities as customers struggled to book rides or deliveries during the outage.