Is WhatsApp down?
whatsapp.com · Messaging · official status page
WhatsApp has recorded 100.0% uptime over the last 5 days, with no outage. It answers our checks in 1100 ms on average.
No problems detected
WhatsApp answered our last automated check normally, 12 minutes ago. If it is not working for you, the problem is most likely local - Your connection, your DNS resolver, a cached page, or an extension.
WhatsApp problem reports in the last 24 hours
Counted in 15-minute buckets from reports submitted on this site. This is a user signal - A tall bar means people are complaining, not that our check failed.
No reports in the last 24 hours.
If WhatsApp is not working for you, tell us and the chart starts here.
Response time from our automated checks
The last 24 checks of https://www.whatsapp.com/ from our network. Bar height is the response time; the tallest bar is the slowest.
- Answered normally
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Having a problem with WhatsApp?
Tell us what is not working. Reports go straight onto the 24-hour chart above and help other people see a problem before any company admits to one. 0 reports in the last 24 hours.
About WhatsApp outages
WhatsApp carries more than a hundred billion messages a day and, in many countries, functions as the primary way people reach businesses and government services. That makes its outages disproportionately disruptive: When WhatsApp stops, so do appointment bookings, delivery updates and family group chats.
Because messages are end-to-end encrypted and queued on the device, a WhatsApp outage usually presents as a clock icon beside a sent message rather than an error. Other tells are "Connecting…" in the header, media that will not download, and voice notes that refuse to send while text still goes through. Web and Desktop clients depend on a separate relay, so web.whatsapp.com can be broken while phones are fine. WhatsApp shares Meta's core infrastructure, so a large Meta incident typically hits it alongside Facebook and Instagram, though its independent message queue means it often recovers on a different curve.
What to do if WhatsApp is not working for you
Is it them or you?
Our last check reached whatsapp.com normally, from a different network, resolver and route than yours. If it is broken for you, the fault is most likely local or too narrow for a single probe to see. Run the check again now to confirm.
The first thing worth trying
Do not resend. The first message is almost certainly queued. Resending doubles the backlog you are waiting on and is why people receive the same message six times when service returns.
How messaging services typically fail
Messages sit with a single tick or a spinning clock. Group chats update out of order as the backlog clears. Voice and video calls fail before text does, because they need a live connection rather than a queue. The rest of the steps, and why this category breaks the way it does, are on our messaging status page, with more background in how long outages last.
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WhatsApp measured against its peers
How it compares with other messaging services
Over the last 30 days WhatsApp ranks 1 of 4 messaging services we monitor, measured on recorded uptime. The category averages 100.0%, and WhatsApp sits at 100.0%. That is the best record in the group.
On speed, WhatsApp answers our checks in about 1100 ms against a category average of 466 ms - Slower than its peers. Response time is not availability, but a service drifting well above its own normal is often the first sign of trouble.
What the last 24 checks looked like
Across the most recent 24 checks, the quickest response was 203 ms and the slowest 2636 ms, against a 30-day average of 1100 ms. The chart above plots each one, so a widening spread is visible before it becomes an outage.
All figures are our own measurements, taken every 20 minutes from one network. What that can and cannot see is set out in the methodology, and every messaging service is listed on the category page.
The server that answered Mostly hidden
- IP address
- 157.240.211.60 and 1 other
- Server
- Hidden until you sign in
- Powered by
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- Content type
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- Declared size
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- Transport and HSTS
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Five more fields about the server behind whatsapp.com.
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Read from our last sweep of whatsapp.com, not requested when you opened this page.
Certificate Mostly hidden
- Status
- Expires in 7 days
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- Valid from
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- Expires
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- Protocol and cipher
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Who issued it, what it covers and exactly when it expires.
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An expired certificate stops browsers loading a site entirely while the server itself stays perfectly healthy, which is why we track it beside the uptime figure. Check it yourself.
WhatsApp status: Common questions
Is WhatsApp down right now?
WhatsApp is up and responding normally. This page is refreshed by an automated check that runs every 20 minutes from an independent network, and by reports from visitors.
Why can I not reach WhatsApp when you say it is up?
Because an outage can be partial. Our check runs from one network and asks for one page. Your problem may be regional, may affect only the mobile app, or may be local to your connection, DNS resolver or browser cache.
How reliable is WhatsApp?
WhatsApp has been reachable for 100.0% of the last 5 days we have measured, with 0 seconds of recorded downtime.
Does WhatsApp have an official status page?
Yes - WhatsApp publishes one at https://metastatus.com/. It is the authoritative source for confirmed incidents, though official pages usually update after user reports have already peaked.
WhatsApp discussion
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