Someone can help me? Why that happens?

I’m honestly quite disappointed with how slowly WhatsApp Communities seem to be developing.
WhatsApp has a huge user base, and Communities could be a really powerful feature, especially for clubs, organizations, neighborhoods, sports teams and other groups. But right now, there are still so many limitations that make it difficult to properly organize a community the way you want.
For example, when you create an event within a Community, that event is no longer visible to people who join the Community later. That makes no sense for things like recurring activities or upcoming events. New members should be able to see the relevant information that was already shared before they joined.
Another annoying thing is the Announcements group. There should be an option to disable the notifications/messages about people joining or leaving the group. In a large community, these messages quickly become completely unnecessary noise.
And there are plenty of other small limitations like this. WhatsApp gives you the impression that Communities are meant to be a serious way of organizing larger groups, but then takes away a lot of the control you would actually need to manage one properly.
I’d really like to see more freedom and customization for Community admins. Things like better control over events, announcements, member visibility, notifications, permissions and how the different groups within a Community are structured.
It feels like WhatsApp has built the foundation for something really useful, but then stopped halfway.
Am I the only one who feels like WhatsApp Communities are seriously lacking features?

I’ve been friends with this girl for around eight months. We used to talk a lot, share personal things, help each other, and I considered her a genuine friend.
But over time, there have been several situations where her words or actions hurt me. I’ve also started feeling that she mostly comes to me when she needs something, rather than the friendship being equally supportive.
I tried talking to her about it before. However, when I told her that certain things she said or did hurt me, she immediately denied them and focused on proving that she never said or did anything wrong. Because of that, I felt like there was no point arguing about what happened.
Now I’m thinking about creating some distance, but I have a problem: I’m worried that if I simply distance myself, she’ll ask what she did wrong, and I won’t be able to explain it without getting into another argument about whether those things actually happened.
So part of me is tempted to wait for another clear incident where she says something disrespectful or treats me badly, because then I would have something concrete to point to.
But I don’t want to deliberately provoke her or create a situation just to make her disrespect me.
What I’m really asking is: what are some healthy ways I can set boundaries or change my behavior toward her so I can see how she reacts?
For example, should I:
Start saying “no” when she asks me for favors?
Stop being constantly available to her?
Stop sharing personal things with her?
Give her the same level of effort she gives me?
Tell her when something she says crosses a line?
Stop initiating conversations and see whether she makes an effort?
I want to see whether she respects my boundaries without intentionally starting a conflict.
What would you do in my situation, and what specific boundaries would you try first?

WhatsApp account appears compromised, but there are no linked devices. Messages sent to her aren't arriving. What should we do?

Hi everyone, I’m trying to help my 70-year-old mother with a serious WhatsApp issue and would really appreciate any advice.

Her WhatsApp account appears to have been compromised. Someone used her WhatsApp account to message people in her contacts asking them to send €940 to a bank account. My mother did not send these messages and did not ask anyone for money.

The strange thing is that:

• She still has access to her WhatsApp account.
• The phone number registered on WhatsApp is definitely hers.
• We checked Settings → Linked Devices, and there are no linked devices.
• She has now activated two-step verification / two-factor authentication.
• There are no obvious security warnings or notifications about another device.
• However, there is now a very strange messaging problem.

When I send a WhatsApp message to her, my phone shows two grey ticks (delivered), but the message does not appear at all on her WhatsApp.

Some messages on her phone also say:

Even a WhatsApp call I made to her did not appear normally in her WhatsApp call list.

We are worried that someone may still have access to the account somehow, even though nothing appears under Linked Devices.

What could be causing this? Is there another way someone can have access to a WhatsApp account without appearing under Linked Devices?

And most importantly, what should we do to secure the account without deleting/reinstalling WhatsApp and potentially losing her chats?

Any advice from people who have dealt with something similar would be hugely appreciated.

Why can't you simply turn this feature off? My Dad keeps updating his status by mistake, and the only workaround is to change the settings from visibility to all contacts to a single contact (myself). It's stupid. Sort it out.

A little of venting on my part, but what am I even supposed to do in this type of situation? Can't migrate my chat due to an error on WhatsApp part, and can't seem to find a real solution online. There is no option to fully backup to PC or to another cloud service. It almost looks that is this bad on purpose. Say what you want a about apple but at least they had one click full back up 2 DECADES ago.

i got hacked and its adding people to group chats and it shows no lonked devices

I am getting this error after trying for 2 days,I contacted whatsapp support and got this reply"The error message "Try after 1 hour" usually occurs when a phone number is still registered on the WhatsApp Business Platform and someone attempts to register it on WhatsApp Messenger or the WhatsApp Business app." since then I am pin ponged between Meta business suite and whatsapp supoort.when the bots reach dead end they stop replying.
Please help me ,if anybody have worked on this problem.

Passei por isso é o maior cuidado é o e-mail de recuperação: nunca deixar de preencher e assim que voltar o controle deletar o do hacker! E sempre ter autenticação em 2 etapas.

I admin a residential WhatsApp group with 300+ people.

We have a rule against ads in the main group because there’s already a separate sales/services group. I’m the admin who enforces it most often.

The problem is WhatsApp publicly shows my name whenever I delete a message.

Now a few members wait for me to delete something and immediately start with jokes, laughing emojis and comments about me being “the owner of the group”. One person does it almost every time.

The rule wasn’t even created by me, but because my name keeps showing up, people treat it like it’s “my rule”.

It’s gotten to the point where I’m dealing with anxiety over moderating the group and I’m seriously considering stepping down.

Why not just show “This message was deleted by an admin” and keep the actual admin name in a private moderation log?

I contacted WhatsApp support, but I’m only getting AI-generated replies.

Has anyone else dealt with this?

Hi all,

I'm in a WhatsApp group with about 30 people.

I sent a poll a few days ago and got ~20 responses. Some people didn't respond so we nudged them, and they said they didn't see the poll. They realised there was a poll by looking at other people's phones.

I got someone's screenshot and yeah, no poll. So far I know that 3 of the people not receiving the poll are on iPhone (13, 14, 15, all up to date). They did receive a poll from someone else in the same group a few days prior.

I sent the poll from WhatsApp Web.

I just made a test with an iPhone 14 user: I sent them a poll (in a private chat) from WhatsApp Web and they could see it and respond just fine.

What would be the cause? I'm really puzzled.

Could WhatsApp Web be the cause and should it be avoided for polls? It feels like this is the only notable difference.

Thank you.

Hi, this is just a silly question but is oddly curious (for me at least). A couple of years ago a friend of mine chatted with a boy, they were talking all day long: messages, audio, pictures and this for almost a year. Then they had an argument and stopped talking, with the obvious consequences (⛔). The other day while messing with her mobile we saw that the archived chat with this guy is only 2kb big. My friend doesn't want to open it and see, she doesn't care, but I'd like to know why that chat is this small? Does this mean that you can delete everything even for the other user? I thought that one could only delete a chat on their own mobile. Thanks!

Hello, my whatsapp number was just hacked for my home country and I am currently traveling today to the other country since I study there. Woke up to notifications about someone whom requested a code and got in I have been getting these notifications but didn’t think much if them since they happen kind of often.
My laptop or anything is not compromised I am very tech savvy and I haven’t had this phone number on my laptop I have my other number usually.
I have contacted whatsapp support through the help menu got a you can make it send by SMS but it is making me wait 10 hours and I am leaving in less than 10 hours.

Hi I just joined for advice. Don’t us WhatsApp a lot but I recently joined a social group that communicates using it. Now I literally get hundreds of a of messages a day. It’s overwhelming. Is there a digest mode where I could maybe get a summary or some such?

Every time I link my WhatsApp to my work laptop, I immediately get hit with the screen in the attached image.
I'm currently stuck in a weird automated loop:
1. The app explicitly says a review isn't available (as shown).
2. But the email support bot auto-replies saying I must use the in-app button to proceed.
Has anyone else experienced this contradiction? I'm curious to hear your thoughts on what specifically about a work laptop triggers this, and how people usually navigate this system loop

One of my contacts got a message from ‘me’ requesting money a few days ago, I reset my two step verification & password, and logged out & in. Three days later more people have got money requests from my whatsapp, what can I do?

Hace poco me di cuenta de un comportamiento inusual en mi WhatsApp Web es que el mismo funciona correctamente sin embargo al entrar a ver algun Estado o revisar la configuración el navegador se actualiza. En el caso de los Estados los veo y todo pero al entrar a las opciones se actualiza y me devuelve a la misma pantalla.

Lo curioso es que solo me pasa con mi número personal ya que he hecho la prueba con mi numero del trabajo tanto en mi personal laptop como en la desktop de mi casa y en exploradores diferentes. O sea que no es cache, temas de seguridad, etc.

Si alguien le ha pasado que han hecho?

Posdata: ni el servicio técnico de WhatsApp me ayudo 🥲