HIGHLIGHTS
. WhatApp faced a major outage across the country
. The issue has now been fixed with users able to send and receive stickers, images and attachments
. The issue had affected users on Android as well as iPhones
WhatsApp is the planet’s most popular messaging service application and has hundreds of millions of users in India alone who rely on the service to help them communicate with their friends, loved ones as well as business contacts.
The platform has managed to become so due to its rather reliable nature. However, there are times when it breaks out of this pattern, and leaves users facing an outage. And the latest was observed yesterday when WhatsApp’s users in India were deprived of the functionality to send and receive attachments and stickers to each other.
Reports of this came in from users from across the Android and iOS divide, with downdetector.in reporting that WhatsApp users started facing the outage after 4.00pm in the evening and the issue peaked towards the end of the day.
The issue appears to have been fixed, and as of this morning user reports about WhatsApp and all its functions working as usual have come in. With the problem fixed, WhatsApp users are now able to share GIFs, images, videos, stickers and other media files. The live outage map too shows that users in the country not facing issues with the platform anymore, with app appearing to have gone back to normal service.
Apart from India which reported the highest number of cases of outages yesterday, yesterday also saw users from countries like Germany, the UK and the UAE also report issues with application or using some of its core functions.
The latest outage comes after we recently reports about WhatsApp dropping the idea of introducing ads to its platform. In what came as welcome news to many, Facebook seems to have dropped the controversial decision of introducing ads as part of a feature on the messaging app.
As per the reports doing the rounds last year, Facebook was toying with the idea of introducing ads as a feature on Whatsapp, similar to how ads appear between Instagram stories.
However, a Wall Street Journal report had recently stated that the team that was working to integrate ads into the service has now been disbanded by Whatsapp. The team’s work was then deleted from WhatsApp’s code, the report said.
