{"id":635147,"date":"2026-06-12T16:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635147\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:29:10","slug":"instagram-and-whatsapp-down-websites-not-working-amid-widespread-meta-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635147\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram and WhatsApp down: Websites not working amid widespread Meta outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/320d861e6506916d498b5042a4233b82.jpeg\" alt=\" (AFP\/Getty)\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/>  (AFP\/Getty)      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The web versions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/whatsapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WhatsApp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;WhatsApp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">WhatsApp<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/instagram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Instagram&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a> have gone offline in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tech\/facebook-meta-outage-down-updates-b2994751.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a major outage that has taken down Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;a major outage that has taken down Facebook&quot;}\" class=\"link \">a major outage that has taken down Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Only the websites of the two apps were offline. WhatsApp and Instagram\u2019s apps appeared to be functioning as normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tech\/facebook-meta-outage-down-updates-b2994751.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk::: Follow the latest on the outage in our live blog here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;}\" class=\"link \">:: Follow the latest on the outage in our live blog here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">That was in contrast to the outage at Facebook, which knocked all of its apps\u00a0including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/messenger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Messenger;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Messenger&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Messenger<\/a>\u00a0offline, as well as its web version.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">All of parent company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/meta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Meta;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Meta&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Meta<\/a>\u2019s apps \u2013\u00a0which includes Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp \u2013\u00a0share services behind the scenes, meaning that an outage on one of the products usually comes with issues at others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(AFP\/Getty) The web versions of WhatsApp and Instagram have gone offline in a major outage that has taken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,1325,59,103,21740,56,54,55,1235],"class_list":["post-635147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-facebook","tag-gb","tag-instagram","tag-outage","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}