WhatsApp users had to find another way to communicate with their friends and loved ones on Friday morning after reports of an outage in countries across the world.
Due to an unknown issue affecting the smartphone app, users were seeing the clock symbol after attempting to send a message, meaning that the message hadn't been sent to WhatsApp's servers.
The website for the messaging app also appeared to be down in what may be a domino effect.
The outage may be an embarrassment for WhatsApp's parent, Facebook, which has this week announced record revenues from advertising.
WhatsApp did not give Sky News a statement regarding the cause of the incident, which lasted close to an hour.
A company spokesperson said: "Earlier today, WhatsApp users globally had trouble accessing the app for about an hour. This issue has been fixed and we apologise for the inconvenience."
They added: "This was not the result of a cyberattack."
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