WhatsApp’s biggest outage has been resolved, but Meta doesn’t say what broke

After a fairly significant period of outage, instant messenger WhatsApp is now back in action. The Meta owned WhatsApp messenger’s troubles began around noon, and was widespread, with users unable to unable to send or receive new messages or make voice and video calls. Meta’s other platforms, including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram, remained unaffected with the troubles plaguing WhatsApp. The outage extended to WhatsApp Web apps as well, while certain settings within WhatsApp remained unavailable, including status and privacy settings. WeChat follows in a distant second place, with 1.26 billion active users – it has however overtaken Meta’s own Facebook Messenger app, which now has 988 million active users.