Is WhatsApp down or blocked? whatsapp.com status by country
Latest availability of whatsapp.com from about 90 countries: where it opens, where it is blocked and why.
Our latest check of whatsapp.com ran on 12 November 2026, 20:57 UTC from 82 countries. Its server answered normally from 80 of them; signs of blocking were found in 1 (Russia); it did not answer from 2 (Iran and China).
A new check of whatsapp.com runs from about 90 countries at once and takes about a minute. The result below is the last saved one.
Check whatsapp.com nowWhere whatsapp.com has problems
| Country | Result | What we saw |
|---|---|---|
| Russia | Signs of blocking | The connection is reset: typical of filtering |
| Iran | Does not answer | The connection times out from this country |
| China | Does not answer | The connection is refused |
| Iraq | Slow | The server answers, but the secure connection is slow |
Where the whatsapp.com server answers normally
Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Türkiye, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.
No usable answer came from 9 more countries this time; they are not counted.
About WhatsApp
WhatsApp is the messenger owned by Meta, used for messages, voice and video calls in most countries of the world. The apps, WhatsApp Web and business accounts all depend on Meta's servers, and whatsapp.com is the main website and entry point for the web version. When WhatsApp stops working for everyone at once, it is usually an outage on Meta's side. When it fails only in one country, the cause is often a restriction by authorities or providers, sometimes applied only to calls or media files rather than to text messages.
Where WhatsApp is blocked according to our data
Our records for whatsapp.com start on 27 October 2026, so blocking may have started earlier than the first date we saw it.
- China: did not answer in the latest check (the connection is refused), first seen in our data on 7 November 2026.
- Iran: did not answer in the latest check (the connection times out), first seen in our data on 4 November 2026.
- Russia: blocked now (the connection is reset), first seen in our data on 3 November 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Is WhatsApp down right now?
Not for most of the world. In our latest check on 12 November 2026, 20:57 UTC whatsapp.com opened from 80 of 82 countries. If it does not open for you, the cause is more likely local: your provider, your network or a restriction in your country. Run a new check to see the current result for your country.
Why does WhatsApp not open in my country?
When whatsapp.com works in other countries but not in yours, there are three usual reasons: a restriction ordered by authorities, filtering by your provider, or a network problem between your provider and WhatsApp. A different security certificate, a reset connection or a wrong address from DNS are typical signs of filtering; a timeout can be either filtering or a network fault.
How is whatsapp.com checked?
From measurement points in about 90 countries we look up the address of whatsapp.com with the local DNS and open a secure connection to it, checking that the site returns its own certificate. We do not load the page content, and we do not publish which networks the measurements came from.
Last check: 12 November 2026, 20:57 UTC. This page is updated after each new check.