WhatsApp, the popular instant communication app owned by Meta that is used by many for quick texting is reportedly facing an issue. Millions of WhatsApp users across the globe are currently unable to send or receive messages.
Indianexpress.com can confirm that the outage is affecting both personal chats as well as group chats. Outage detection website DownDetector confirms that WhatsApp is not working for many users across multiple regions.
WhatsApp is down for thousands, with over 20,000 crash reports suggesting a major outage. (Image Source: DownDetector)
WhatsApp Web also appears to be affected by the outage, and we can confirm that app’s web client is also unable to connect to the WhatsApp servers, suggesting a server-level outage, and not one that only affects the Android and iOS apps. Anyone trying to use WhatsApp Web will be greeted to an error message like the one seen below.
WhatsApp Web is also not working, as people continue to wait for a fix for the outage. (Image Source: WhatsApp Web)
This is WhatsApp’s first major outage since the larger Meta outage on October 5, that took down WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook together, affecting millions of users over several hours before the services were back online.
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Update: Meta is working on a fix
WhatsApp’s parent company Meta has acknowledged the outage and is currently working on a fix. “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we’re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible,” a Meta spokesperson told indianexpress.com.
We are yet to hear more details from Meta on what caused the outage.
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