Claude Not Responding Today? Fix It Fast
Claude stuck mid-answer or silent? Check status first, then work through these fixes in order.
Updated 8/13/2026
When Claude stops replying, the cause is almost always one of three things: an Anthropic-side incident, a stalled browser session, or a conversation that has grown too long for the context window.
1. Rule out an outage first
Before you troubleshoot your own device, check the live status indicator at the top of this site. If Claude is marked degraded or down, no local fix will help — wait for Anthropic to resolve the incident.
2. Reload the session properly
A hard reload clears the stalled websocket that carries Claude's streaming response. Press Ctrl+Shift+R (Cmd+Shift+R on Mac). On mobile, fully close the app from the app switcher rather than backgrounding it.
3. Start a new conversation
Very long chats slow generation to a crawl and can silently fail. Copy the last few messages you need, open a fresh chat, and paste them back in as context.
4. Disable extensions and VPNs
Ad blockers, privacy extensions and corporate VPNs frequently break the streaming connection Claude uses. Test in a private window with extensions off.
5. Check your plan limits
Free and Pro plans both have message caps that reset on a rolling window. If you hit the cap, Claude stops responding until the window resets.
Still stuck? Walk through the full checklist on our Claude not responding fix page, or if the interface never finishes loading see Claude app stuck loading.