MIAMI, Florida – WhatsApp, a popular cross-platform messaging app owned by Meta, experienced a significant outage, disrupting service for users across the United States on Saturday, April 12, 2025,
According to DownDetector, a service that monitors online outages, the platform saw a sharp spike in problem reports, peaking at 1,988 complaints at 10:25 AM EDT.
Reports from WhatsApp users indicate that 90% of the issues were related to sending messages, while 6% involved app functionality, and 4% affected receiving messages.
The most intense WhatsApp outages appear to be in several major cities, including Los Angeles and San Diego in the western United States, Atlanta and Miami in the southeast, and Mexico City in Mexico, with additional scattered reports across the U.S., Canada, Cuba, and Venezuela, according to a WhatsApp outage map by downdetector.com.
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