New Delhi, April 4: WhatsApp experienced a widespread outage on Wednesday around 11:45 pm, affecting numerous users worldwide.

Those attempting to access the app or its web version were met with an error message indicating the service was unavailable. WhatsApp, Instagram Down: Services of Meta-Owned Apps Restored Following Global Outage.

On various social media including X, users took to post about the problems they were facing with the popular cross-platform messaging application. Downdetector, a website monitoring service, recorded a surge in reports of WhatsApp connectivity problems during this time.