WhatsApp Down In US, Users Complain App Not Working- wna24

Washington: The popular messaging app WhatsApp faced outages in the United States on Friday as several users reported facing problems over the message delivery. 

DownDetector received over 13,000 complaints. Another set of users complained about facing difficulty while connecting with the app. 

As no official comment was issued from Meta (parent company of WhatsApp) during the initial phase of the outage, users flocked to social media platforms to check the functionality status of the app. 

One user wrote, “Stop toggling your airplane mode on/off. Stop refreshing your WhatsApp. It’s not your network, WhatsApp is down.”

The outage sparked a memefest with users questioning “How many people have now come to X to see if WhatsApp is down?”

Meanwhile, WhatsApp users can now customise their chats with new Chat Themes, now available for Android and iOS phones. 

Chat themes are an extension of wallpapers, allowing users to not only change the chat background but also the overall colour theme. However, the biggest appeal is the ability to change the colour of the chat bubbles, which have stayed the same since the app was introduced.

WhatsApp has rolled out 30 new wallpaper options, but users can choose any photo from their phone’s gallery and turn it into a chat wallpaper. A theme can be applied to all chats or individual chats, but they will be applied only to the user making changes. The recipient will not see changes in the appearance of the chat screen, unlike Telegram where a user can change the theme for both themselves and the receivers.