Global WhatsApp Outage Hits Morocco, Disrupts Messaging Service

A frustrating Sunday for WhatsApp users who reported some disruptions in the messaging service. Many had trouble downloading, displaying or sending images or videos, according to the Downdetector website. In Morocco, as in Paris, the outage was detected around 11:30 a.m. (local time), reports lematin.ma.

In the comments on Downdetector, a website that monitors failures on the internet, users clearly express their dissatisfaction: "Impossible to send or receive documents, photos, voice messages... Long live Telegram"; "Exactly the same problem in Côte d’Ivoire, impossible to post statuses and read voice notes"; "I can no longer send/receive vocals or images, but the written ones work"; "A three-hour outage is causing the messaging service to crash across Europe"; "WhatsApp is bugging, it’s annoying me"; "My audios won’t send"... These are some of the messages that can be read.

According to data published by Downdetector.com, the outages seem to be concentrated in Western Europe. The incident was almost completely resolved shortly after 3 p.m. But the damage caused is enormous, judging by the users’ messages.

WhatsApp had already experienced a similar technical problem on November 11 and December 10, 2019.