The Down Detector website has WhatsApp peaking at around 75,000 outage reports just after 5pm. We began noticing the problems at about 5pm UK time and haven’t been able to access any of the Facebook suite of apps or websites since.

Trusted Reviews will continue to monitor this massive story as the evening continues.įacebook, WhatsApp and Instagram appear are down on Monday and we’re not just talking about the company’s plummeting stock price either.įacebook’s entire suite of apps, including Messenger and the Oculus app are suffering major outages as we head into Monday evening. While there are various theories on what may have happened circulating on Twitter – from a DNS issue, to Facebook has been ‘deleted’ – there’s no official word or prognosis on when the services will be restored. There has been no further communication from the social network, or its WhatsApp, Messenger or Instagram offshoots, since the initial admission the platforms were experiencing issues earlier this evening. UPDATE 4/10 21:15pm BST: The serious outage involving all of the major Facebook-owned platforms has entered its fifth hour. We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now.

The company wrote: “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry. In a statement posted to Twitter at 11:33pm on Monday evening, Facebook apologised for the outage. UPDATE 2: 4/10 11:55pm BST: After an outage lasting around 7 hours, Facebook and Facebook-owned services like WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram are now coming back online.

Update on whatsapp outage