Love Island USA experienced heavy traffic on its app, disrupting the re-matching episode scheduled for Thursday night and pushing the program to Friday night.
When voting opened Tuesday night, many users encountered network errors while trying to decide which contestants would form new matches. After resolving the issue, the voting period was extended until Wednesday afternoon.
According to information shared during the broadcast, this season's first vote saw approximately a 350% increase compared to last year's finale vote. Participation surpassed one million.
Near the end of Thursday night's episode, narrator Iain Stirling announced that due to the app crash, the re-matching would be moved to Friday night.
Following the postponed episode, viewers will watch on Friday night which new pairings the contestants will pursue. This delay highlighted once again the critical importance of technical capacity in voting-based formats.