Using WhatsApp without Internet access? It seems impossible, but the app's creators don't think so and have kicked off 2024 by adding a surprising new feature. Today, mobile instant messaging apps ...

WhatsApp is the world’s most popular messaging app, but even the Facebook-owned platform isn’t immune to outages. In fact, the app was briefly down for scores of people around the world earlier today.

Services started dropping off around 0900 PT (1700 UTC). As you might expect from a huge distributed system, some people can or could get through to Meta's apps and sites as normal, and some are ran ...