The Independent
WhatsApp appears to have stopped working, with users unable to send some messages.
While text appears to work, photos, videos and voice messages will not send through, according to various reports.
Instead, users just see a message reading “download failed” and the content will not arrive.
The same error message advises users to ask for the picture to be sent over again. But doing so does not seem to work.
Unusually, a preview of the picture does appear to be able to get through. It means that recipients can see a version of the pictures that are being sent – but it is fuzzy and the details cannot be seen.
The wording of the error messages appears to change for different users. But many of them suggest solutions that don’t actually seem to work.
“Couldn’t download image,” one seen by The Independent reads.
“Try again. If the problem keeps happening, try turning off Wi-Fi or VPN, or connecting to a different Wi-Fi network.”
Facebook has stopped working properly, at the same time as WhatsApp.
Rather than a total or global outage, the Facebook issue appears to be specific to certain features. Users report that specific posts or photos don’t show, but that the page might load.
Issues are being reported across the world, according to the tracking website Down Detector. Users in Europe, the US, South America and Japan were particularly affected, with thousands of users across the globe running into problems.
This is what happens when one company owns everything… you lose all your communication methods at once when they have a problem (and they control it all even when it is working!)
down your nonsense phones and go learn! follow the rabbonim and get rid of your smart (stupid) phones!
many schools and businesses rely on these services. Especially entrepreneurs…it is a great way of getting the word out to people
Okay no problem thank you so much for the update