Online messenger WhatsApp went down on Friday night for millions of its users in India and others who witnessed issues with privacy settings as well as last seen online status not working.
As per reports to outage monitor portal Down Detector, there was a 66 per cent rise in WhatsApp down reports, with last seen online status not working for them as well as 28 per cent reporting connection problems.
WhatsApp users are not able to change their privacy settings counting the ability to show their last seen to their friends or nobody. Recently, Facebook, Instagram, Messenger faced outages in various areas of the globe and Instagram users were not able to post direct messages.
Both Android and iOS WhatsApp users took to Twitter to report the issues.
"WhatsApp is experiencing issues when updating privacy settings," tweeted WaBetainfo which tracks new features in Beta versions of the messaging app. "Has anyone else''s ''last seen'' on WhatsApp been automatically turned off and can’t turn it back on?!" one user tweeted. "Does anyone know what''s going on with #whatsapp?" tweeted another.
Facebook or WhatsApp were yet to comment on the problem.
(With inputs from IANS)