With WhatsApp last seen defaulting to nobody, which seems to be a common issue in this outage, users are unable to see when others are online. This also means, you can’t know or see when others are online. WhatsApp seems to have automatically defaulted to “nobody” for last seen which is a setting that you turn on when you want to keep your online status private. The main problem seems to be with one specific aspect of WhatsApp’s privacy settings, that is, last seen. WhatsApp is yet to confirm or deny the issue.
“Failed to update privacy settings, please try again later,” is the error message you get currently when you head over to your WhatsApp account’s privacy settings. Users are taking to social media to report their failure to update their privacy settings. In what appears to be a global outage, WhatsApp users around the world have been witnessing glitches in the instant messaging app’s privacy control settings. Issues are being reported across both Android and iOS (Photo credit: Reuters)
