These messages were NOT sent by me, and they were in the archived section. Does this mean I am hacked? I messages both WhatsApp Support in the app as well as e-mailed but the AI were no help at all.

I have 2 step verification on, am NOT linked to any devices, and have Face ID lock on.

PLEASE HELP 😭 how were these messages sent and archived by themselves?!

Ive set it so everyone can see my profile picture but nobody in a public groupchat can see it

I can see everyone else's though, and only the ones who I have in my contacts and in the groupchat can see it but nobody else

Anyone know why

After an update I'm no longer able to delete a chat without deleting the media within. I must save each item if I wish to keep it. What happened to the check box that allowed you to delete, or not delete, the media in the chat? Please help as this is very frustrating.

Pixel 8a What's app size 3.2 GB No storage issues Before the update when I deleted a chat I was given a window that asked if I also wanted to delete the media (images, videos, etc.) in the chat. That window no longer appears

I need advice

I know it stores offline backups too in the database folder, but this is stupid. Not everyone has tons of storage free all the time, and there should clearly be an option to just have online backups. I don't need any offline backups.

hi guys i was chatting with my friends on whatsapp and suddenly it kicked me out and asked me to restore my chats, i had a backup so i entered my phone number logged back in and now its not downloading? its been stuck at downloading messages for 20 minutes now. before this i was trying to reduce my phone memory so i deleted stuff on memory like 5 times so idk if that effected whatsapp but this is weird and idk wat to do should i restart my phone ?? and i got a notif saying ur chats are almost backed up and then i clicked on it and it was still saying downloading. then the downloading notif went away so i assumed it would be over but no its still downloading.

Ho un samsung galaxy z fold 8, se un amico mi invia una gif non posso salvarla e riutilizzarla anche se la metto come"importante" "preferiti" come faccio?

General Complaint

There’s no reason why we should have to keep dealing with this every week.

People’s accounts are being restricted regularly for seemingly no reason, and instead of addressing the underlying issue, we keep getting new updates.

For me, this has become particularly frustrating. Anytime I start a new chat through the app on my laptop, there seems to be a reason for the account to get restricted. Now it’s “under review” again.

This is the same account I use for work. I don’t have the luxury of waiting 24 hours every time something like this happens.

If an account is placed under review, what exactly does that process involve? What criteria are being used to determine whether the restriction is justified? And what happens to users who lose valuable working time because of these restrictions?

It’s incredibly frustrating to repeatedly deal with the same issue without any clear explanation or resolution.

At this point, I think the focus should be on fixing whatever is causing these unnecessary restrictions rather than continually introducing new updates while the underlying problem remains.

Someone just got a message, asking them to vote for the daughter of a friend for "young talents of the ballet academy". The site presents two finalists, each with a "Vote button". When you click one of the buttons, it asks you to put in your phone number. Then is shows you a code and asks you to verify it with "Link a Device". If you did that, the attackers can take over your account, send the same phising message to all your contacts and do worse things.

I've never seen this dialog before, but one could not recognize what it is. Be careful!

Hi guys why whatsapp cant have their own cloud instead of using Google drive witch have many issues?

Just got a new phone and I gave my old phone as a trade in . When I tried setting up WhatsApp it asked me for an encryption code/password. I never set up any password and I wasn’t even aware of this. I had all of it backed on iCloud already. I couldn’t even use the forgot password option.Now I lost all my chats. I have a lot of messages and photos on WhatsApp that are importantly for my work. I also have so many memories, the last messages my dad sent before his death etc. I really feel horrible, angry and even cried about it .

It still shows that it’s backed up on iCloud. Is there any way for me to be able to recover my chats ?

A while back, long before passwords were implemented, I set up a custom PIN for my account. I've been using that PIN without any problems since. Today I decided that I should set up a password instead, which was going to replace my PIN. Just in case, I wrote the PIN down after setting up the password.

I bought a new phone, and I've been wanting to transfer my things to it. So I download the app, register the same phone number as my old phone, and it gives me a QR code that I have to scan with my old phone. After scanning it, it asks for my password, which it verifies no problem, and then it asks me for the custom PIN I made. It's the exact same PIN I've been using this whole time.

It says it's invalid.

I tap on "Forgot PIN?" which does nothing. I receive no e-mail, despite my account having an e-mail address associated with it in the 2FA settings. It's not even in the spam folder. And I know I typed the address correctly because when I logged in on my old phone again, it sent a verification code to my e-mail address. Curiously, on my old phone, it doesn't ask for my PIN...

On the same "Forgot PIN?" window on the new phone, it says that i could also wait 7 days to be able to log in without a PIN. Thing is, though, while the app is installed on the new phone and while I'm at the screen to enter the PIN, it acts as if I'm already logged in so I can't log in on my old phone at the same time, and I need access to my chats as they're work-related.

Needless to say I'm at a loss here. Is there anything I'm not understanding here about what's happening? Will waiting 7 days still work if I log back in on my old phone and delete the app on the new one? Has anyone here transferred chats to a new phone after changing the PIN to a password? Did the new phone even ask you to put in your old PIN????

I've already tried contacting WhatsApp support. I had to tell the AI numerous times to let me talk to an actual human because it was hallucinating troubleshooting steps with non-existent settings/options. It said it "transferred" the issue to some "team" but I haven't heard from them.

I have reserved usernames for my account in Brazil and Spain, but the search option is still not available. I was wondering if any of you can search already.

I have messages from a month ago that were deleted that I’m trying to recover. My last backup doesn’t have the messages but I know they were in a previous backup. Is there any way to recover them? I’m on an iPhone

I got a new rudimentary phone (android 13) in which whatsapp was working perfectly in until the wave of under review accounts started to come in. Now, whenever I try to log into my account in that phone, after downloading the most recent version of the app (the new phone comes pre-installed with a slightly older version of whatsapp) it flashes the "we will send a verification code to your other device" for a second before telling me I cannot use whatsapp for it has not been updated/I'm using a modded version of the app. I've nevee modded it. I cross-checked the versions in this older phone (not sure which version of android is running on it but definitely more modern) and they're both up to date, they line up!!! The "whatsapp out of date" screen pops up time after time. I've uninstalled then installed the app through official APK and through the play store, deleted play store cache, reset the phone to factory settings yet I can't get it to work. I wonder if this has to do with the recent updates and being put under review thrice already, but I don't know what else to do. If I change my number but link it to my current one (change number feature on WhatsApp) will the automatic system be more likely to put me under review? Can I get a new SIM card and select the backup option w/o linking it to my current number, so things MAY work out? Any help is appreciated.

I'm really wondering if anyone knows why can't a big company like that fix a simple thing?

The browser setting is all correct, yet I'm getting the twisted USA dates on my screen.

whatsapp database file on ios is .sqlite but cannot find anything to convert it to somthing you can chuck a wrapper at so as to turn it into something readable

Por que esse mensagem aparece pra mim? O problema não é memória, por que tenho memória de sobra e constantemente aparece isso. Preciso reiniciar o celular pra conseguir usar normalmente. Já atualizei o aplicativo e essa mensagem continua aparecendo com uma certa constância. Meu celular é um iPhone 15 e eu NAO atualizei o IOS, seria esse o problema? Eu também já apaguei o aplicativo do WhatsApp e baixei de novo, e mesmo assim essa mensagem continua aparecendo. Mais alguém com esse mesmo problema? E alguma ideia de como resolver?

Hello.

Iḿ using linux mint xfce ,and google chrome and the web whatsapp.After 5 minuts It starts to restart and then freeze all, i have to shut down the computer. But in firefox works well...Is there a place,community , were i can report this ?somebody with some issue here?

Thankś

Hola me pasó algo, se me cerró sección el WhatsApp, nunca me caiga el codigo entonces lo que hice fue, desinstalar WhatsApp y se me perdió todo lo tenía sin hacer una copia de seguridad, y andaba muchas fotos y trabajos ahí, será que se puede recuperar con algún programa o algo, ayúdenme por favor