WhatsApp users from various of parts of India complained of the messaging platform not working late on Friday, 26 July. Many users took to Twitter saying they could not send messages and the application was not loading.
The outage comes a day after the mobile messaging platform announced that it caters to over 400 million active users every month in the country. In addition to India, the heat map courtesy Downdetector suggests that people in England, Germany and parts of Singapore are also not able to use the platform.
According to Downdetector, people started reporting about the outage from 7:12PM IST onwards on Friday.
And some users have also reported that Instagram, another of Facebook-owned product is also not working but we couldn’t spot any heat map surge on downdetector for the platform.
In other WhatsApp news for the day, the popular messaging platform, is reportedly developing a system to allow people to use one account on two different devices at the same time.
This feature will ensure that you don’t have to log in to the web version (on browser) all the time, which requires you to mirror one account (from the phone) to the bigger screen, linked via encrypted QR code.
This development has been highlighted by the reliable WhatsApp tipster, WABetaInfo this week, and according to them, it will work on two devices that are running on different operating system. This means one WhatsApp account can be used on iPhone and Android at the same time.
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