# Unable to approve "type: approval" workflows **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [January 22, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/unable-to-approve-type-approval-workflows/50275 "2024-01-22T23:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mgonesignal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@mgonesignal](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/mgonesignal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/unable-to-approve-type-approval-workflows/50275/1 "2024-01-22T23:31:00Z")
Approval steps in the CircleCI UI are not working in multiple repositories since sometime today. Repro: 1. Click on approval step in the workflow view 2. Click “Approve” on the confirmation modal 3a. Observe modal close, but approval remains in a “paused” state 3b. Observe a 500 POST request in the network tab ---
**Author:** ![LukeMedapp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/lukemedapp/32/34793_2.png) [@LukeMedapp](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/LukeMedapp)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/unable-to-approve-type-approval-workflows/50275/2 "2024-01-22T23:38:07Z")
I’m also having problems with approval steps right now. I can’t even get the approve ‘thumbs up’ button to display, so my builds just remain paused forever. Seems like there’s been an update to the platform as I notice some new animations and assets. Also seems to have broken some stuff. ---
**Author:** ![chenyang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/chenyang/32/29586_2.png) [@chenyang](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/chenyang)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/unable-to-approve-type-approval-workflows/50275/3 "2024-01-22T23:38:53Z")
I have the same issue as well. ---
**Author:** ![agranado2k](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/agranado2k/32/34796_2.png) [@agranado2k](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/agranado2k)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/unable-to-approve-type-approval-workflows/50275/4 "2024-01-22T23:39:51Z")
Also I’m having the same problem. ---
**Author:** ![philwhln](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/philwhln/32/18364_2.png) [@philwhln](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/philwhln)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/unable-to-approve-type-approval-workflows/50275/5 "2024-01-22T23:45:34Z")
Same issue ---
**Author:** ![akf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/akf/32/34735_2.png) [@akf](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/akf)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/unable-to-approve-type-approval-workflows/50275/6 "2024-01-22T23:50:17Z")
I’m having this problem too – just a minus sign icon by the approval task and no way to approve it. After maybe 15 minutes, my most recent approval task changed to “Failed.” ---
**Author:** ![Entroper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/entroper/32/16535_2.png) [@Entroper](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/Entroper)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/unable-to-approve-type-approval-workflows/50275/7 "2024-01-22T23:50:57Z")
I’m not even able to click the hold button. About an hour ago, another developer was able to click approve, but the job just shows as failed. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/e/9/e97e66d91001b799cf744ab4de27e2b77468b5fe.png) ---
**Author:** ![akf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/akf/32/34735_2.png) [@akf](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/akf)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:57pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/unable-to-approve-type-approval-workflows/50275/8 "2024-01-22T23:57:33Z")
Oh, it just came back? And I see “Incident identified”: [https://status.circleci.com/](https://status.circleci.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Entroper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/entroper/32/16535_2.png) [@Entroper](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/Entroper)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/unable-to-approve-type-approval-workflows/50275/9 "2024-01-22T23:58:21Z")
Confirmed, it started working for me just a minute ago. ---
**Author:** ![mf-dkraus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/mf-dkraus/32/34802_2.png) [@mf-dkraus](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/mf-dkraus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 11:59pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/unable-to-approve-type-approval-workflows/50275/10 "2024-01-22T23:59:24Z")
I’m able to “approve” now too. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/5/1/511608acda8e85906e15909b57bd0a46c1dbe291.png) [@system](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/unable-to-approve-type-approval-workflows/50275/11 "2024-02-14T18:28:40Z")
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