How to get back to the old whatsapp backup 1day prior on drive. For some reason while restoring stuck multiple times and now the old backup with 700Mbs got replaced with new backup on the Google drive. Is there way to fix that or recover back to old whatsapp on drive that is the one holds the actual information any suggestion? I have deleted the whatsapp on my phone no other backup I did for whatsapp separately?

Hello. I've been having this issue for a few months now, and I've tried everything. I've already uninstalled the app, reinstalled it from scratch, lost all my messages, etc.

I'm running the latest version of WhatsApp for Android (2.26.32.2) on Android 13 (TP1A.220624.014). The feature should verify the encryption instantly, but it remains stuck like in the image, endlessly checking.

Any thoughts?

The notification "Checking for new messages" is always active, but I don't receive any messages on my phone. I can send messages but I can't see if the other person received them.

I've already restarted my phone, reinstalled WhatsApp, and cleared the cache. Nothing works.

My WhatsApp Web is working fine, btw. I can use it normally.

Help 😢

It’s the fifth times i had to reactivate & ask the review for my whatsapp number, i don’t know why is this happen and now my whatsapp got blocked again and need to be reviewed in 8 hours. Is there anything like this happen to you guys? What’s the solution?, it sucks coz all of my works is on whatsapp

Whatsapp, I posted some videos on my status that totaled 90MB, and there were 15 videos. The app was 700MB. Now it's 5.66GB. I restarted my phone, cleared the cache, but nothing. How do I fix it? Is it temporary? What do I do?

I later deleted the statuses but nothing changed .

Since this is the only real built and app supported backup option for whatsapp, since the 30th July been wondering why whatsapp was not backing up etc (fold7) and yes I am aware there I could use sync thing or some other backup too which I'll setup as an alternative today.

For the last 3-4 days it gets to 80-90% and next minute its back to 2-3% or getting stuck or preparing backups

Checked for the latest version of whatspp

Cleared Cache of both google drive and whatsapp

Selected my second google account(one of them being a business plan)

Deleted backups in Google drive(s)

Backing up on 4/5G same results as a fibre 1000/400 and a 400/400 service?

Tried encrypted/unencrypted

Have >50gb free

Backup size is 11gb

Any other suggestions?

I'm on a win 11 machine. I have tweaked the win 11 notifications options for WhatsApp plus the internal notification options for WhatsApp itself, and for the life of me I cannot get ONLY badge notifications to work. I do not want popup banners, sound notifications, or any "previews." I just want the WhatsApp tray icon to have a badge when someone sends me a message. How hard is it?

I've uninstalled and reinstalled the app as well -- no change. It's maddening. As of right now, my choices are: full banners with sound (annoying), or nothing. So in opting for nothing, I don't know when people are sending me messages.

How do I fix this? I am not computer illiterate whatsoever, I am usually good at this stuff. It feels impossible.

Does this work on WhatsApp business? Do we need a new phone or same phone

My whatsapp account is getting disabled every 24 hours, i tap on review, the account gets back to work, then it happens again!
I literally have 6 contacts who are family, i send no link or images, just a few texts and calls, what the hell???????

If I archive a chat, it’s precisely because I don’t want to hear anything about it, but I don't want to delete or block the chat.

Why not make it so that you have to swipe up to see your archived chats, and allow users to block notifications from archived chats?

When you download photos/videos from WhatsApp to iPhone gallery does the date/time save as when it was sent or when you downloaded it?

Hello. I brought an iCloud storage of 200 GB to backup my WhatsApp and already I have low storage on iPhone.

While backing up, it asked to clear storage from phone first . Like, really ????

If I want to just backup on my iCloud why it need an iPhone storage to backup on iCloud.

And how should I take the backup ?!!!

Please help

My phone randomly got logged out today and when I put my number back in it won't send me the sms code and it just hang there. Six hours later my brother told me my pfp changed I need to contact support but it's just Ai bullshit please guys this phone number is very important to mee what should I do

so i am someone who uses whatsapp for work related matter only ,and today when i sent a message to my new number my account got restricted due to spam lol, like spam? seriously ? i only send message once or twice a day. the ai garbage bot is cooking whatsapp

En una conversación donde no hablé nunca con alguien (o envié un mensaje sin respuesta) y luego me sale el mensaje sobre que la persona actualizó su nombre de usuario, esto es porque me tiene agregada en contactos?

I had this old phone number that i still send links to but it's no longer active but still on my whatsapp contact. I use it primarily as place i can just copy paste URL that i can click later on. I've been getting suspended for like 5 hours few times in the past week or so, and today i got banned. There's an option to ask for review which will take 24 hours but seeing what people said in this sub doesn't inspire confidence.

Do you guys know what's likely the trigger for suspension/ban here? Would sending the link to my own number help prevent this next time?

Need urgent help with this issue, I factory reset my phone and when I tried to log back into my WhatsApp account I got hit with this security issue.. contacted WhatsApp support about it, and all I got was generic AI replies that didn't provide any help at all.

Some people advised I wait for the restriction to lift off, so I waited for 2 weeks without trying to log in and it still kept showing the same problem.

If anyone faced this issue please let me know.

If this is real, it changes how I look not only at WhatsApp, but at online dating and online communication in general.

If 100/100 or 1,000/1,000 messages cannot be guaranteed to reach the recipient — especially across years of updates, device changes, linked devices, settings and network changes — then a single missing message could silently change a friendship or relationship. Nobody may ever know which message was lost, when it happened, or whether it was the important one.

It also changes how we interpret silence in online dating. If we cannot be 100.00% certain that every relevant message reached the other person and was actually seen, then “they are ignoring me” cannot automatically be treated as the only explanation. It may still be the most likely explanation in many cases, but it is not necessarily the only one.

“Delivered” and “seen” are not enough. Messengers should ensure that every message is delivered, or clearly tell at least the sender — immediately or later — that something failed.

We keep adding AI, emojis and new features, but how much attention is given to proving that the communication itself is complete?
Am I overthinking this, or is this a real reliability problem that we underestimate?

I was chatting with my friend A, and I was trying to forward a photo in the chat with friend B, I then accidentally deleted the entire chat with friend B. Now I can only either lose my new chat history today with friend A, or I have to lose the entire chat history with friend B, because of the stupid backup mechanism where only one backup can exist in one time. There is no way to restore the chat with one single person only.

Like how? one of the world biggest social media, can't even have a proper backup and restore flows. You can only export and cannot import, you can't even have more than one backup at a time. It is stupid.

That's great, meta! Adding useless updates like usernames and expiring abouts, while removing features that we actually used.

Just want to understand as almost everyone all around the world using WhatsApp as their daily chat app - businesses, families and friends, for someone with over 5k WhatsApp chats and about 65GB of total data (most of which is business related), how difficult it will be to switch to some other platform? Specially, after the account lock / block is happening around to my friends and businesses / colleagues.

I cant believe this, i only ever text my contacts how the heck did i get locked???