Whatsapp outage: users can’t send messages

Global messaging service WhatsApp is currently down, in what appears to be a global outage.

Problems with the Meta-owned messaging service started around 8am BST, and users were unable to send or receive messages.

Now when a user tries to send a message, the message is not sent at all. At the time of this writing, Meta has no indication as to the cause of the problem.

According to DownDetector, reports of WhatsApp being down have come from North America, including the US and Canada, Europe, including the UK, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Israel, India, Australia, and others around the world. many countries.

ZDNET reached out to Meta for comment, but a WhatsApp spokesperson said in a statement: guardian paper: “We are aware that some people are currently having issues sending messages and we are working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as soon as possible.”

Whatsapp is one of the most widely used messaging apps on the planet, used by approximately 2 billion people worldwide.