If you use WhatsApp, Facebook, or other Meta-owned apps, chances are youre having a rough afternoon. Why? Because theres an ongoing outage.

Contents When did the WhatsApp outage start?Are other Meta apps and websites down?When will everything be back to normal? When did the outage start? What apps are affected? When can you expect everything to be back to normal? Heres what you need to know.

　　When did the WhatsApp outage start?

According to DownDetector, reports of WhatsApp being down started flooding in around 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday, April 3. Reports spiked at around 2:19, with multiple thousands of people reporting issues with the app.

Related Reports indicate that WhatsApp users are unable to send or receive messages. You can still open and use other functions of the app, but sending/receiving messages appears to be broken.

If you recall, this comes just about a month after Facebook and Instagram experienced a widespread outage in early March.

　　Are other Meta apps and websites down?

In addition to WhatsApp, DownDetector also shows outage reports for Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram all Meta-owned services.

Additionally, the Meta status and outages website confirms there are major disruptions for all of the following services:

Ads Manager Messenger API for Instagram Messenger Platform WhatsApp Business API Marketing API Ads Transparency There was an outage also confirmed for the Meta Business Suite, though that appears to have been fixed.

　　When will everything be back to normal?

As of right now, its unclear when WhatsApp, Facebook, and other Meta apps will be back to normal. 9to5Google reports that the issue seems to have been resolved, although Metas own status website indicates otherwise.

Well keep an eye on the ongoing situation and let you know when things are fully resolved.