WhatsApp Services Restored After Hours-Long Outage in India, Other Regions

WhatsApp is down for a number of customers, in keeping with 1000’s of reviews from customers of the favored messaging app owned by Facebook mother or father Meta. Based on reviews on downtime monitoring companies, customers in India and world wide are at the moment unable to entry the messaging app. WhatsApp has acknowledged that it’s conscious that customers are unable to entry the service. Gadgets 360 was capable of verify that sending messages on private chats in addition to teams was not engaged on WhatsApp for Android, iOS and the desktop app.

[Update: By around 2.45pm, Gadgets 360 was able to send and receive messages on WhatsApp via mobile and the desktop apps, suggesting that functionality was slowly being restored].

According to statistics from web site and app downtime monitoring service Downdetector, customers in India started to report points with accessing WhatsApp at round 12:30pm on Tuesday, with about 2,610 reviews. At the time of publishing, reviews on Downdetector had jumped to 25,597, indicating widespread points amongst customers of the favored messaging service.

Downdetector had over 25,000 consumer reviews
Photo Credit: Screenshot/ Downdetector.in

Downdetector’s consumer reviews from customers within the UK had been at 63,930, whereas there have been 4,248 and 26,043 reviews from customers in Brazil and Spain, respectively.

In India, Downdetector’s “heat-map” instructed that Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and different areas seem like essentially the most affected by the downtime.  

Users have additionally taken to Twitter to complain concerning the service’s downtime, with over 66,500 tweets with the hashtag #whatsappdown on the time of publishing.

At the second, customers are unable to ship a message by way of WhatsApp for Android or iOS. WhatsApp sometimes reveals a single tick mark for a message that has been despatched, and two tick marks when a message has been delivered. However, Gadgets 360 was capable of verify that no tick marks are displayed when sending messages in group chats or particular person conversations.

WhatsApp Web and WhatsApp’s desktop apps, which work independently of a linked telephone’s web connection, additionally seem like equally affected by the outage.

Meta has acknowledged that some customers are dealing with points accessing the service and is engaged on a repair. “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 ANI.