WhatsApp outage on 16 October 2026

Problem reports about WhatsApp rose to outage level at 19:16 Central European time on Friday 16 October 2026 and stayed there for 2 h 11 min.

They peaked at 2,142 reports in 15 minutes at 19:16, at a time of day when there are usually almost none, and 298 reports came in while the outage lasted.

3 other services had an outage spike at the same time.

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Started

19:16

Fri 16 Oct, Central European time

At outage level

2 h 11 min

Ended 21:27

Busiest 15 minutes

2,142

reports, at 19:16

Reports during the outage

298

Counted in 15-minute windows

Timeline

Reports from Fri 13:15 to Sat 03:30

One bar per 15 minutes, Central European time. Red bars are the outage; the dashed line is what a usual day sees at that time.

Same time

Other services with an outage at the same time

Their reports also reached outage level while WhatsApp's did. Many services failing together can point to a shared cause, such as a network or cloud provider, but reports alone cannot show it.

Outage
Salt
19:09–19:41

24peak reports
Outage
Sunrise
19:16–20:05

20peak reports
Outage
Swisscom
19:20–19:45

14peak reports

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Where these numbers come from

The numbers are problem reports that users sent to a public outage-reporting service, counted in 15-minute windows and kept as this site's live page showed them. A spike counts as an outage when reports are more than twice the usual level and far above the day's average. Reports show that many people had trouble at the same time, not what caused it; the service's own status page is the place for that. Until 28 October 2026 many services took their numbers from a smaller country list, so outages before that date look smaller than later ones.