WhatsApp services restored after global outage

WhatsApp services have been restored hours after they went down for thousands of users globally on Wednesday, the Meta-owned platform confirmed in a statement.

In a post on X, WhatsApp said: "And we're back. Happy chatting."

Earlier when the messaging app experienced outage, it said on X, "We know some people are experiencing issues right now, we're working on getting things back to 100% for everyone as quickly as possible."

Meta on business API status confirmed the outage, saying: "We are currently experiencing an outage impacting service on Cloud API. This issue started at 04-03-2024 11:18 AM PST. Our engineering teams are investigating the issue. We will provide another update within 4 hours or sooner if additional information is available."

Meanwhile, WABetaInfo said WhatsApp is already restoring the messaging service but some features, such as last seen and online status, may not be available yet.

Downdetector reported that over 40,000 reports of WhatsApp outages reported in UK.

There were about 12,000 incidents of US users reporting issues with the messaging platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

More than 20,000 users in India, about 46,000 in the United Kingdom and over 42,000 in Brazil have also reported problems with the platform, Downdetector data showed.

Around 4,800 people also faced issues with Instagram in the United States, according to Downdetector.

Last month, hundreds of thousands of users of the social media company's Facebook and Instagram globally were impacted for more than two hours following an outage that was caused by a technical issue.