Scientists have figured out why so many smartphones were freezing up all around the world, and the answer is Indians wishing each other good morning.

The glitch, discovered by Google, is caused by an overabundance of sun-kissed flowers, adorable toddlers, birds and sunsets sent first thing in the morning.

Millions of Indians are logging on for the first time and they are clogging up the bandwidth with their early morning greetings.

Just before sunrise and up until 8 a.m., internet newbies post millions of good-morning images to friends, family and strangers.

All those early morning well wishes have driven a tenfold increase in the number of Google searches for “Good Morning images” over the past five years.

Online picture-sharing site Pinterest has added a new section to display images with “good morning” quotes, which has seen a nine-fold increase over the past year in the number of Indians downloading the snaps.

WhatsApp even added a status message last year so users could say good morning to all of their contacts at once, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The messaging service has 200 million monthly active users in India, making the subcontinent its biggest market.

Even the prime minister, Narendra Modi, is in on the act.

He gets up at 5 a.m. to practice yoga and is known to fire off good-morning messages as the sun is rising.

Last year he admonished a group of lawmakers for not responding to his greetings.

Cheap smartphones and data plans have brought uneducated and illiterate groups of users in the country online who are adapting apps to fit their own needs and skills.

Bonding with large groups through work, school, family and friend circles is important for Indians.

This is one reason wedding celebrations often involve hundreds if not thousands of guests.

That tendency has been given new fuel in the form of affordable smartphones and wireless broadband.

Some complain all these greetings come too early, are too cheery and too likely to freeze their low-cost, low-memory phones. To deal with the annoying morning cheer, some leave message groups or refuse to download the images.

Prerna Sharma, 24, says she has had enough of her relatives sending morning messages every day.

“They’ll call you and say, ‘Did you see that good morning?’” she said and she doesn’t know what to say because she rarely reads them. “Most of the time my notifications are on mute.”

One in three smartphone users in India run out of space daily, according to a survey by data-storage firm Western Digital Corp., compared with one in 10 in the US.