Facebook Messenger down: Chat app broken as users receive ‘waiting for network’ message

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Users are unable to send messages and are instead seeing a message indicating that the app is “waiting for network”. The technical issues arrived at the same time as Instagram was seemingly hit by problems with its own direct messages service, which made it hard to send or receive new chats. Facebook announced in September that it was not allowing messages to be from Facebook Messenger to Instagram and vice-versa, along with a more significant overhaul of the latter’s DM system. Recommended Instagram glitch leaves users unable to send direct messages The problems particularly affected people in Europe, according to tracking website Down Detector, though that might be a result of where its users are based and online.