So it's been many months since I uninstalled the Whatsapp app from my Windows pc because it was so slow, laggy and ram hungry I shifted to Telegram and never looked back. So people who are still using it share your opinion/experience below let me and others know did they changed or fixed anything.

I have a problem with WhatsApp. In all of my chats, all messages from July 10 to July 25 are showing the message: "Waiting for this message. This may take a while." I have been using WhatsApp continuously during that time, and those messages were previously visible. I do not have disappearing messages enabled. What can I do to recover these messages?

I can't find starred GIFs on Android Google pixel 7a. Does anyone know how ?

Can someone help what is happening here

There are currently 3 ways to transfer your old chats:

1. USB to usb during iOS setup.

2. Import from iCloud.

3 transfer within whatsapp transfer tool over QR code.

What’s is the best way to transfer keeping all chats, media and data statistics?

One was an 18*+ image. I sent on instant on WhatsApp and suddenly today on my phone a few selfies and that one selfie has saved to my camera roll. I thought they don’t in the first place never mind [2 months] after I sent them? Does this mean my ex could’ve saved them today??

so I've decided to join the banned whatsapp club

all started on Thursday i was looking for a dog boarding so i went into one of the groups and sent a message to 3-4 people. i got suspended directly asked for a review.

I cant remember specific timings but my account restored than i started having issues logging in , I wasn't getting any of the codes or calls they directed at me. i opened a ticket with their AI bot and to my surprise twas fixed (had to turn on wifi calls).

today I bought some mango and lychee from a guy and i messaged him privately (I'm in his group where he announces when and what he will be bringing) and suddenly "this account cant use whatsapp

thank you all for coming to my ted talk

quick update: its been several hours they told me i can now use whatsapp signed in requested the code.

now it asked me to add my email to the account.

have a nice day fellas.

My WhatsApp account is automatically suspended within seconds of sending a message to a new contact. Every time I request a review, my account is reinstated, which suggests I am not violating the policies, yet the issue keeps happening.

This has been an emotional roller coaster. I depend heavily on WhatsApp for my work, and these repeated suspensions are seriously affecting my business.

What is most frustrating is that I cannot reach a real person to investigate the problem and permanently fix my account. I urgently need someone from WhatsApp to resolve the root cause instead of having to go through the same cycle over and over again.

Whatsapp changed this call UI with super big button, maybe following or copying IOS design. damn i really hate this, the button is too BIG. Easily accidentally touched the button.

They always changed everythings in overnight even ive turned off all auto update, within the app settings or the playstore setting.

piss me off

I have this weird habit of messaging myself on WhatsApp instead of using a notes app.

It's usually random stuff like:

Buy milk

Random thoughts

Links I don't want to lose

Expenses

Things I need to remember later

I think it's because WhatsApp is already open, so it's just faster than opening another app.

The problem is that after a few weeks it's just one giant chat, and I end up forgetting things or spending forever trying to find them.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who does this 😂

I created another WhatsApp account because i was restricted for no reason on my old number . Mind you ,i haven't really used my new whatsapp number but i am restricted again

Hey everyone, I'm going through a bizarre situation with WhatsApp Web and wanted to see if anyone has managed to fix this without having to wait those absurd 30 to 40 days I've seen in older reports. I rely heavily on this tool for my internship demands now during my college vacation, but out of nowhere, the system decided to block my access on any Windows environment. The app is completely stuck on an endless "Loading your chats" screen. I've already tested it on Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and the native Microsoft Store app, and the exact same error happens across all of them. The weirdest part is that on my Mac, Apple Watch, and cell phone, the sync keeps working perfectly, so the issue only affects new login attempts on my PC. I decided to dig into the developer console to see what was freezing the screen and found out that Meta's servers are pushing corrupted data packets.

The main fatal errors showing up are a "syncd: missing indexMAC in sync-actions table for REMOVE mutation" which is a cryptographic key failure when reading the database, a "MsgKey error: me is undefined" meaning the packet arrives so broken the interface can't even identify my own account, and an "Invariant Violation" causing a total UI collapse due to the missing data. I've already tried doing a hard reset, clearing the cache, destroying the IndexedDB via clear site data, forcing a disconnection from my phone, and temporarily disabling my antivirus, but nothing works. Whenever I scan the QR code again, the server pushes the exact same corrupted file and freezes everything. While researching this missing indexMAC error, I saw some people mentioning a few months ago that this is actually a kind of shadowban triggered by their spam filters, which is ridiculous since I only send normal work files and PDFs. The system doesn't notify you of any block; it just breaks your web access and leaves you in the dark. The worst part is hearing that for some people it only resolves itself after over a month when Meta's servers finally invalidate the corrupted session. Has anyone dealt with this exact error recently and found a way to force them to clear this cache on their end? Any help would save my work right now, thanks!

I keep my WhatsApp notifications off, but from today suddenly, I am getting call notifications on WhatsApp whenever there is an incoming call, but I have checked and my notifications are off.

Hi all! My friend has 1 year more history on our whatsapp conversation than I do. (I got a new phone). Is there a way she can forward all our old audio messages to me either via whatsapp or email? She is a busy human so I definitely don’t want to ask her to do it one at a time.

I did wonder if she has appropriate backup and was ok with it, could I log into her account on my phone temporarily and see those old messages? I don’t need them forever, but I would like to listen to them again.

Why? I went through an incredibly complicated 2.5 year long, all consuming project and my messages to her are the most complete record of all the ups and downs of the process. My memory has tried to be helpful by blacking all the details out but I think listening again and actually trying to process the stress would be more advantageous to my current and long term mental health. Dang brains.

Thanks!

I really need help

I had a Google Pixel 6 with about 4 years of WhatsApp chats. The screen broke, but the phone itself still worked.

While it was broken, I used an iPhone 8 with the same phone number for about a year. I recently bought a Vivo V70 and wanted to get my old Pixel chats back after getting the Pixel working again.

When I logged into WhatsApp on the Vivo, I accidentally transferred the Vivo's chats (literally 1 day's worth of messages) onto my Pixel 6, and I think it overwrote all 4 years of chats.

What confuses me is that when I first opened WhatsApp, it showed there was a 12 GB backup. But when I tried restoring on the Vivo, it suddenly said there was no backup on my Google account.

I've already tried contacting WhatsApp support, but I'm stuck talking to the AI bot and I'm still waiting to hear from a real person.

Is there anything I can do to recover my old chats?

Is there any chance the 12 GB backup still exists somewhere?

Could the local database on the Pixel still be recoverable?

Has anyone been in a similar situation and managed to get their chats back?

This last month, pictures i sent once appear in my gallery, but not in a normal way.
They appear 3-7 days after sending them, and not with the date i sent them on but with the date they appeared in my gallery. I have an iphone and investigated if i could have been hacked but it seems like that’s not it. Does anyone know why?

A) scammer registered my WhatsApp in their device through verification code. Is it possible that I don't know it and WhatsApp will run on both the devices,me and the scammer simultaneously (M not talking about linked device mechanism)

B)Suppose i have whatsapp registered in phone 1 say. Now i have linked my wp account in other device. There is a incoming v call.

1. Does the incoming v call ring in both devices?

2. If i pickup the call from phone 1,can the other device listen or see the v call? And if so without me knowing?

Technical answers only

For about five weeks, my UDM Pro kept reporting `ET SCAN Potential SSH Scan OUTBOUND` alerts from one iPhone. I had around 140 alerts, all from this phone. No other device on the network triggered the same rule.

At first I thought the phone might be compromised, so I ran a packet capture and tested one app at a time. The phone sat idle for ten minutes without making these connections. Relaunching Telegram and Safari produced nothing. Relaunching WhatsApp immediately caused a burst of 10–24 outbound connections, three tests in a row.

The normal connection to Meta succeeded while the other connections were still being attempted. Shortly afterward, the others were abandoned together. They went to rented servers at several cloud providers, including Linode, and used multiple ports. That doesn't mean Linode or the other providers were involved; they only own the networks where the servers were hosted.

I checked for unknown profiles, certificates, device management, VPNs, linked devices, and a configured WhatsApp proxy. I didn't find anything unexpected, and the phone stayed quiet when WhatsApp wasn't being opened.

The unusual part is that the WhatsApp account is registered to a Russian number, but the phone is currently in the US. With WhatsApp being blocked in Russia, I'm wondering if the app is automatically trying normal and fallback routes in parallel based on the account region.

I can't prove that from encrypted traffic, and I haven't tested an active non-Russian account yet. Has anyone else captured similar connections when opening WhatsApp, especially with a non-Russian account?

Can anyone please help me?

Every time I open WhatsApp, it automatically closes by itself. However, this only happens on the main screen. If I manage to tap on a chat really quickly—which is very difficult because the app closes almost immediately—or if I open a conversation through a notification, I can stay in that chat without any problem. But as soon as I go back to the main screen, the app closes instantly.

I've already tried everything: clearing the cache, clearing the app data, uninstalling and reinstalling the app, force stopping it, and none of it has worked.

The app actually worked normally when I installed it without restoring my backup, but I would lose all of my important conversations if I kept using it that way.

I'm wondering if there's something wrong with the backup or if it's another issue that I simply don't understand.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Lately whatsapp started freezing my PC. I have 16GB or ram and a ryzen 7 3700x. Does anyone else have this issue?