WhatsApp users are now able to send photos, videos, stickers, GIFs. WhatsApp users are now able to send photos, videos, stickers, GIFs.

WhatsApp is now back online in India and most users can send and receive stickers, photos, videos, and GIFs. The popular online messaging service started facing some issues in several regions across the world this evening. Users complained of not being able to send or receive photos, GIFs, stickers and videos. However, the messaging service was working continuously on the app throughout this period.

As per the downdetector.in, WhatsApp users started reporting outage after 4:00 pm in the evening and by 5:00 pm the outage reports have sky-rocketed. As per the outage map, the Facebook-owned messaging app was facing issues in parts of India, Brazil, and parts of the Middle-East including UAE. The map also shows that Europe is also facing severe outage.

WhatsApp users are unable to send GIFs and other media on the app. WhatsApp users are unable to send GIFs and other media on the app.

Last year, Facebook-owned three services — Facebook (social media), WhatsApp, and Instagram — were impacted with users complaining they were unable to upload or send images, videos and other files on the apps. The company had later tweeted that it was aware people were having trouble accessing the services across its apps and that it was working to fix the problem.

A Facebook spokesperson later clarified that the outage problem was due to a routine maintenance operation, which ended up triggering a bug responsible for the problem with uploading images and videos. Facebook has yet to comment on the first outage situation of WhatsApp in 2020.

Users complaining about the issue on Twitter

People are checking twitter to see if whatsapp is down or not 😂

First #whatsappdown of the year! Meanwhile me – pic.twitter.com/aoea6K99l2 — Rits 🇮🇳 (@AsNoOneCanWish) January 19, 2020

Checking in to make sure I’m not the only one who can’t send any Media on WhatsApp#whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/7UOJrZsyOa — 👑 King Za – كينغ زا 👑 (@King1Za) January 19, 2020

me trying to send voice messages, photos and stickers#whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/b0DlBegjNc — Giorgia (@giorginaac) January 19, 2020

People to Twitter and Instagram after #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/gSBRfgsUEk — Mohammad Faisal (@itsmeFSL) January 19, 2020

People running to twitter to check if they are the only one whose whatsapp is down #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/mJoQ73qLij — Snehil (@Snehil_96) January 19, 2020

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