WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook are recovering after outages

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WhatsApp was down worldwide, impacting the 2 billion users of the messaging service. Users started experiencing issues connecting to WhatsApp in multiple countries just after 2PM ET today, with the service stuck on “connecting” for many.Users could still send messages, but they weren’t delivered until WhatsApp came back online.
A status page for Meta’s business APIs was updated to note problems with connecting to Whatsapp, Messenger