Messenger stopped loading my chats this morning, down for anyone else?

It was a wider blip earlier today, a lot of people saw the same spinner. Usual fix while it sorts itself out: force close the app, toggle airplane mode on and off, then reopen. If it is still stuck, check downdetector before you start reinstalling anything.

Had no idea about this, thanks for asking it out loud.

The answers here saved me a support ticket, thank you.

Clear space on the phone first, a lot of these apps misbehave when storage is nearly full.

Restarting the phone entirely did it for me when nothing else worked.

Older phone here and the permissions reset fixed it, give that a go.

Been meaning to ask this for ages, so thanks.

Worth checking your notification settings too, they quietly reset after big updates.

Mine did the exact same thing for about 40 minutes then came back on its own. If yours is still dead, log in on messenger.com in a browser. If it loads there, it is the app, not your account.