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  • WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook down globally

    Facebook and its owned purposes WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger are reporting loading points worldwide as a consequence of extreme outgage as a number of customers complained. 

    Downdetector confirmed there have been greater than 20,000 incidents of individuals reporting points with Facebook and Instagram.

    “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can,” a message on the Facebook web site mentioned when making an attempt to load. 

    Meanwhile, the social-media big’s immediate messaging platform WhatsApp was additionally down for over 14,000 customers, whereas Messenger was down for practically 3,000 customers.

    “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience,” a Facebook firm spokesperson mentioned.

    WhatsApp too reached out to its customers through Twitter to acknowledge the outage:

    We’re conscious that some individuals are experiencing points with WhatsApp in the intervening time. We’re working to get issues again to regular and can ship an replace right here as quickly as doable. Thanks to your persistence!— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) October 4, 2021

    Further, a tweet shared by Instagram mentioned: “Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown”.

    Downdetector solely tracks outages by collating standing stories from a sequence of sources, together with user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage may be affecting a bigger variety of customers. It is regular for web sites and apps to undergo outages, although one on a worldwide scale is uncommon.

    Later, consumer stories additionally indicated Twitter is having issues, in response to Downdetector. 

    Shares of Facebook have been down 5.45% to commerce at $324.31 apiece at 1:30 pm ET, whereas Twitter inventory was buying and selling 6.73% decrease at $57.81.

    Meanwhile, Twitter was bombarded with a number of memes on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram’s outage. Take a glance: 

    Twitter, too grabbed the chance to unfold the information: 

    Facebook’s annual income has greater than doubled from USD 56 billion in 2018 to a projected USD 119 billion this yr, based mostly on the estimates of analysts surveyed by FactSet. Meanwhile, the corporate’s market worth has soared from USD 375 billion on the finish of 2018 to just about $1 trillion now.

    The outage comes a day after a whistleblower went on US tv to disclose her identification after she leaked a trove of paperwork to authorities alleging the social media big knew its merchandise have been fueling hate and harming youngsters’s psychological well being.

    Frances Haugen, a 37-year-old knowledge scientist from Iowa, has labored for corporations together with Google and Pinterest — however mentioned in an interview with CBS information present “60 Minutes” that Facebook was “substantially worse” than something she had seen earlier than.

    The world’s largest social media platform has been embroiled in a firestorm caused by Haugen, with US lawmakers and The Wall Street Journal detailing how Facebook knew its merchandise, together with Instagram, have been harming younger ladies, particularly round physique picture.

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  • WhatsApp newest function: You might quickly be capable to change app colors, says report

    WhatsApp always retains updating its app with a view to present a greater expertise for its 2-billion plus customers worldwide. In the most recent such improvement, the Facebook-owned widespread on the spot messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly engaged on a brand new function that may enable customers to vary colors contained in the app.

    The would-be function was first noticed by WhatsApp options tracker WABetaInfo. According to a tweet by WABetaInfo, with the assistance of this function, the app’s customers will be capable to change colors within the chat field and go for a darker shade of Green for textual content on the display. There’s no official phrase but on when the function is predicted to roll out to all customers.

    WhatsApp has been engaged on loads of different new and thrilling options. It was just lately additionally reported that WhatsApp is engaged on a function that may enable customers to vary the playback pace of voice messages at their comfort. The function is at the moment in beta is being developed for iOS customers at the moment.

    With this function, WhatsApp customers will be capable to pace up their voice notes. The function might be launched with WhatsApp model 2.21.60.11. It may have a complete of three-speed ranges – 1x, 1.5x and 2x the place customers will be capable to play the audio messages at any one in every of these speeds.

    Apart from this, WhatsApp is reportedly engaged on rolling out a safety function to guard your chat backups with password and encryption.

    WABetaInfo reported a 12 months in the past that the safety replace is a work-in-progress. However, it just lately shared screenshots of the way it could possibly be introduced within the service’s iOS and Android apps.

    “To forestall unauthorized entry to your iCloud Drive backup, you may set a password that might be used to encrypt future backups,” one of the screenshots reads. “This password will be required when you restore from the backup.” The app then asks the consumer to verify their cellphone quantity, and choose a password that’s a minimum of eight characters lengthy. Another screenshot warns that “WhatsApp won’t be able to assist recuperate forgotten passwords.”

    With inputs from ANI

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  • WhatsApp to roll out password-protected chats backup function quickly

    WhatsApp is reportedly engaged on rolling out a safety function to guard your chat backups with password and encryption. WABetaInfo, a weblog that tracks developments of the Facebook-owned messaging app, reported a 12 months in the past that the safety replace is a work-in-progress. However, it just lately shared screenshots of the way it might be introduced within the service’s iOS and Android apps. “To stop unauthorized entry to your iCloud Drive backup, you possibly can set a password that can be used to encrypt future backups,” one of the screenshots reads. “This password will be required when you restore from the backup.” The app then asks the person to substantiate their cellphone quantity, and choose a password that’s a minimum of eight characters lengthy. Another screenshot warns that “WhatsApp won’t be able to assist recuperate forgotten passwords.” • The chat database is already encrypted now (excluding media), however the algorithm is reversible and it is not end-to-end encrypted. • Local Android backups can be suitable with this function.The chat DB and media can be encrypted utilizing a password that solely you understand. https://t.co/WAliLUnF18— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) March 8, 2021

    Although you possibly can defend WhatsApp with a password lock and the chats are already encrypted, as the corporate says, the service warns that this safety doesn’t lengthen to on-line backups saved on Google Drive and iCloud proper now. Thus, encrypting the backups with a password solely you understand would theoretically stop anybody from accessing your chat historical past with out your authorization. These newest experiences in regards to the function come as WhatsApp’s status has taken a success from a brand new privateness coverage, which has stoked fears that it could retailer extra data with dad or mum firm Facebook In January, WhatsApp had launched its privateness coverage mandating its customers to simply accept its phrases and situations, failing which the accounts and providers could be terminated after February 8, 2021, for the respective person. After going through criticism over the privateness coverage, WhatsApp took to micro-blogging website Twitter to make clear that “no one will have their account suspended or deleted on February 8 and we will be moving back our business plans until after May.” Subscribe to Mint Newsletters * Enter a sound e mail * Thank you for subscribing to our publication.

  • WhatsApp this week: Make voice & video calls from desktop, mute movies, extra

    WhatsApp continually retains updating its app to offer customers with seamless functioning whereas chatting and even throughout voice or movies calls. And with that, the Facebook-owned messaging app is again within the information for a contemporary spherical of options for its 2-billion plus customers worldwide. From voice and video name help lastly rolling out on WhatsApp Web to having the ability to mute movies earlier than importing on chat or tales, WhatsApp launched a plethora of options this week. Here is a lowdown on the newest options of WhatsApp this week in secure or beta releases: -Voice and video calling function on desktop app: The greatest replace this wek from WhatsApp needs to be voice and video calling lastly approaching its dektop model. WhatsApp introduced end-to-end encrypted voice and video requires its desktop app model and in addition shared a hyperlink to obtain the app in your laptop. You can allow the brand new WhatsApp function by downloading the desktop app from right here. WhatsApp stated its practically five-year-old desktop app for Mac and Windows will solely help one-to-one requires now, however that will probably be increasing this function to incorporate group voice and video calls “sooner or later.” Read extra. -Disable learn receipts for voice messages: WhatsApp’s ‘Read Receipt’ function earlier by no means had the choice to disable the ‘blue ticks’ from voice messages despatched on particular person chats. Despite the learn receipts being disabled, the voice notes despatched over private chats don’t help the function of blue ticks tuned off. So, each time you ship a voice clip over, it is possible for you to to see its ticks flip blue as soon as the receiver hears it. However, it now appears to have enabled the choice to disable ‘Blue ticks’ visibility for voice messages too, at the very least for iOS customers. Users can now have the ability to change off the learn receipts that notify the sender of whether or not you’ve got listened to the audio despatched by them or not. To use the brand new function a consumer must go to WhatsApp Settings > Account > Privacy. Read extra. -Mute movies earlier than importing on tales, chats: This new WhatsApp function primarily permits you to mute movies earlier than sharing it as your WhatsApp standing or sending it to different chats. The function could be accessed from the video modifying display when one shares a video with one other contact. However, it’s at present accessible solely on Android. Users will have the ability to see a quantity icon on the video modifying display to mute the video. It is out there together with different video modifying choices akin to trimming, including textual content and so forth. Read extra. -Redesigned media footer for Android customers: WhatsApp is testing a brand new media footer within the beta model of the Android software. According to a report by WABetaInfo, a web site that tracks new options and updates on the beta model of the appliance, model 2.21.5.4 reveals a redesigned media footer. A media footer could be discovered on the underside of web page earlier than sending any photos or movies or another media. The media button icon has been modified to replicate a brand new icon. Earlier variations of the appliance used ‘+’ image. The re-designed bar additionally reveals up when a consumer posts a standing on the app. In phrases of performance within the app, there doesn’t appear to be any adjustments other than the design of the UI. Read extra. -Multiple-device help: Although it has been within the information for a very long time, WhatsApp can be reportedly engaged on a a number of system function. The function will enable the WhatsApp account holder to entry the identical account from completely different gadgets, with out the necessity to have the first related to the web. Currently, customers can solely entry the providers of the platform through WhatsApp Web. However, the first system wants to remain related to the web to ensure that it to operate correctly. Subscribe to Mint Newsletters * Enter a legitimate e-mail * Thank you for subscribing to our publication.