WhatsApp is down across the UK, according to thousands of reports from users.
Users have been left unable to send or receive text messages, photos, documents, or videos on New Years’ Eve.
The Facebook-owned chat app purportedly started to experience problems with its service at around 6pm in the UK.
Independent website DownDetector, which tracks social comments around a certain topic to monitor outages across the globe, has mapped the problems.
The UK is one of the worse hit, with reports also coming in from the Netherlands and Belgium.
DownDetector shows thousands of WhatsApp users experiencing connection issues.
According to their data, the most common complaint with the hugely-successful messenger is sending and receiving messages from friends.
“Not working in Milton Keynes….. I’m guessing you were suprised by the new year celebrations… Again!” one user reported.
WhatsApp was bought by Facebook for an eye-watering $19 billion (£13 billion) in February 2014.
The cross-platform messenger now boasts more than 1.2 billion users.
WhatsApp has steadily added a number of new features over the last year, including support for GIFs and FaceTime-style video calls.
Earlier this year, WhatsApp introduced the ability to delete sent messages.
WhatsApp users are now able to delete messages that they have either sent to a group or an individual chat.
Messages that have been successfully deleted in a chat will be replaced by “this message was deleted”.
There is one catch though – WhatsApp users are only able to delete messages within seven minutes of sending it.
The WhatsApp team said: “Deleting messages for everyone allows you to delete specific messages you have sent to either a group or an individual chat.
“This is particularly useful if you sent a message to the wrong chat or if the message you sent contains a mistake.
“Messages you successfully delete for everyone will be replaced with “This message was deleted” in your recipients’ chats.
“Similarly, if you see ‘This message was deleted’ in a chat, it means that the sender deleted their message for everyone.”
This is not the first worldwide outage that WhatsApp has suffered this year.
The popular messaging app went offline for thousands of users back in November.
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