WhatsApp is back, after a two-hour outage

WhatsApp went down in a major outage that affected the communication app for two hours today.

Now it is reported that WhatsApp services are returning to operation.

Earlier, it was reported that problems in the app involved receiving and sending messages.

“We’re aware that some people are currently having issues sending messages, and we’re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as soon as possible,” Meta spokesperson Joshua Breckman said.

It was WhatsApp’s first major outage since the service went down as part of a massive outage that also took down apps like Instagram, Messenger, Oculus and Facebook last year.

This outage lasted nearly six hours before it was resolved and WhatsApp was back online.

Meta, known as Facebook at the time, said the major outage was due to a configuration change on its routers.