On Tuesday morning, a high number of WhatsApp users woke up to see that they were unable to send or receive any messages from the app.
Tens of thousands of WhatsApp users reported issues with the, according to service tracker Downdetector. Before 8.30 am, more than 69,000 reports of problems with the app had come flooding in.
It appears that users first began experiencing problems with the Meta-owned messaging service just before 8am. WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in the UK, and is even used by senior politicians - around the world, it has more than two billion users.
