WhatsApp witnessed the longest outage in India and other countries as well. It was restored after almost two hours. The outage first hit group messaging on WhatsApp, and then expanded to direct messaging as well.
As per the outage tracker, Downdetector, many users started facing issues with the WhatsApp mobile app and web at around 12:30 PM.
WhatsApp owned by Meta issued a statement almost 45 minutes after the outage was reported. “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we’re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible,” says Meta Company Spokesperson.