Canonical’s Snap Store will be shutting down for database maintenance at the weekend, meaning users won’t be able to install or update snaps until it’s back online.
The planned downtime is expected to last for four hours, starting on Sunday, 5 July 2026 at 22:00 UTC and ending on Monday, 6 July at 02:00 UTC.
During the maintenance you will not be able to install or update snaps. If there’s an app you’ve been wanting to try, or your IoT or core device runs automated tasks during the affected window, you’ll want to plan accordingly
To make that planning less of a faff, here’s a table showing when the outage will occur across various timezones:
| Region / time zone |
Maintenance starts |
Maintenance ends |
| Pacific Time (PDT) |
15:00 Sun 5 July |
19:00 Sun 5 July |
| Eastern Time (EDT) |
18:00 Sun 5 July |
22:00 Sun 5 July |
| Brazil (BRT) |
19:00 Sun 5 July |
23:00 Sun 5 July |
| Universal Time (UTC) |
22:00 Sun 5 July |
02:00 Mon 6 July |
| United Kingdom (BST) |
23:00 Sun 5 July |
03:00 Mon 6 July |
| Central Europe (CEST) |
00:00 Mon 6 July |
04:00 Mon 6 July |
| India (IST) |
03:30 Mon 6 July |
07:30 Mon 6 July |
| Australia Eastern (AEST) |
08:00 Mon 6 July |
12:00 Mon 6 July |
| Australia Western (AWST) |
06:00 Mon 6 July |
10:00 Mon 6 July |
For most, the downtime is during the night or early hours, so the impact will be negligible. But for those in the Americas, it is happening at a more inconvenient time. If you’re on that side of the world and encounter issues connecting to the snap store, you’ll know why.
While the backend databases are offline, anything that talks to the Snap Store – scripts or automated system tasks, updates or installs through App Center and searches via Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s new App Search feature in the GNOME overview – will fail.
However, the downtime only affects the centralised Snap store, not the standard Ubuntu repos and PPAs, nor the snapd daemon and the installation of .snap packages downloaded from elsewhere.
Ssnaps installed on your device will continue to work as normal without any issues (unless they interact with the Snap Store, but that’s unlikely).
Canonical notes that “no user action is required and services will automatically resume once maintenance is complete”.
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