What you need to know
- Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger are experiencing a partial outage that affects the majority of their users.
- Sending and receiving multimedia messages, including photos, videos, and voice memos, appear to be at the center of this disruption.
- Whatsapp said in a tweet that it is working to fix the issue and that some users have already started to see services return to normal on their devices.
Earlier today, users on two meta-platforms reported interruptions in sending or receiving multimedia messages and voice notes on WhatsApp and Messenger.
How he saw it 9to5GoogleET on Monday (June 27). It affected both services and appeared to have peaked in 82% of cases. whatsapp users and 79% of users in Facebook Messenger at approximately 1 pm Eastern time.
Several users too taken to X to express frustration over the ongoing disruption.
However, it is important to note that regular text messages were not affected by the outage. For those who experience it, images, videos, and voice messages either fail to load on the platform or get stuck on loading incessantly.
Android Central staff tried to use WhatsApp to send an image, but it took a couple of minutes to send instead of being delivered instantly to the user. Meanwhile, WhatsApp also took to X to claim that he was aware of the current issue and that he was working to resolve it.
Some users are already seeing services return to normal and the situation is expected to improve in the coming hours.
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