Widespread outage affecting tons of users.
What you need to know
- People all over the world are reporting a WhatsApp outage.
- Biggest sources of issues are Europe and South America.
- There has been no word or confirmation from WhatsApp on the issue.
If you're having issues sending and receiving WhatsApp messages, you aren't alone. Users around the world are reporting outages with the service — including myself. A quick check of popular shows a massive spike in reports of issues.
At least on Downdetector, the biggest number of reports of WhatsApp issues are in Europe and South America, though when you think about it that makes sense considering the large WhatsApp user base in both areas. But as more reports come in, it's clear this is a widespread issue beyond just those areas. There are fewer reports coming from Asia, but once again that makes sense considering it's the wee hours of the morning as of now.
At least in my case, WhatsApp is refusing to send and receive messages, and the has forgotten my connected device. That's a pretty big outage — typically a smaller issue would simply result in delayed messages.