Blip incident

Slow message sending and media sending failures

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Blip experienced a major incident on June 23, 2026 affecting WhatsApp, lasting 1h 30m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jun 23, 2026, 11:09 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 24, 2026, 12:40 AM UTC
Duration
1h 30m
Detected by Pingoru
Jun 23, 2026, 11:09 PM UTC

Affected components

WhatsApp

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jun 23, 2026, 11:09 PM UTC

    We have identified slow message sending and media upload failures. As a result, customers have experienced/are experiencing/may experience media upload failures, with the error "Media upload error: Downloading media from weblink failed with http code 500, status message Timed out waiting for session" occurring.

  2. monitoring Jun 23, 2026, 11:25 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Jun 24, 2026, 12:40 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.