Is Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp down? Live updates amid huge outage

Problems were reported across Facebook’s services, including Messenger, and appeared to be affecting users right across the world.

The issues began at around 2.45pm. Just after 3:15pm it appeared that Facebook was beginning to be restored.

Users are now able to open Facebook – though not everyone is finding that it is back to normal just yet.

It is still unclear the cause of the issues.

The main Facebook website previously showed an error and visitors were told that “something went wrong” and that the company is “working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can”.

Discussing the outage on Reddit, one user, wrote: "I was logged in but no stories would load, posts and reels loaded fine but no comments would appear on anything! Then it logged me out and wouldn’t allow me to log back in. Messenger too! Couldn’t load any new messages."

For the most part, other Meta services such as Instagram and WhatsApp appear to be working as normal.

According to downforeveryoneorjustme, the issue was not just in the UK but also worldwide. Users from the Philippines, Canada, the USA, Australia and India all reported issues when trying to access their accounts.