Thousands of Canadians and Americans reported WhatsApp issues Friday morning, though it appeared resolved by about 12 p.m. Eastern.

WhatsApp is currently down for at least 62,000 users on Friday afternoon, with the majority of issues reportedly in London. Website Downdetector, which monitors where there are issues with websites and apps, showed large spikes for WhatApp, with people saying they had been affected by the outage.

Messaging service WhatsApp has gone down, according to thousands of reports flagged to outage monitor Downdetector. More than 50,000 reports from users, saying they could not use the app to send messages,

According to Down Detector, the problems started at around 3:10pm, and are affecting WhatsApp users around the world.

Meta-owned social media giant WhatsApp has gone down for thousands of users, according to outage detection website Downdetector. Data on the Downdetector website shows WhatsApp being inaccessible for over 10,

Instant messaging service WhatsApp appears to have gone down Friday, according to Downdetector.com. User reports of problems with the chat app appeared to spike Friday morning with a majority of users — 54% — reporting problems with sending messages.

Thousands of Britons were left unable to send messages this afternoon after popular social media apps Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger "went down". Outage monitoring site DownDetector reported huge spikes in the Meta-owned platforms just after 3pm on Friday - with users barred from accessing the platforms up and down the country.