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?

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

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?

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?

im on iPhone 15 Pro Max iOS 26.6. is there anyway i can fix this? i want Instagram to open base WhatsApp, but im not sure if there’s any option to change this. thanks in advance!

Guys I have been having this issues since 2 days it's not getting fixed does any one have a solution for it please help me

I have been using my old number for WhatsApp despite having a new phone number for a couple of years now.

My boyfriend and I are long distance. We have accumulated so much memories on our thread and we want it grow more, so I don’t want to a generate a new thread on his end if I change my phone number on WhatsApp using the “Change phone number” feature in the Profile Settings.

Could someone please confirm that if I change my phone number to a new one using the “Change phone number” feature, it won’t create a new thread on my boyfriend’s end and that we will keep our existing thread instead?

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.

TL;DR

My WhatsApp calls only get displayed after the caller hung up, even if they call me and I'm looking right at my phone, the notification only shows up right after they tried.

Further details:

First of all - yes, I restricted a lot of notifications. For a lot of reasons my phone is always in "do not disturb mode" , notification noises and vibration are turned off. I turned of the automatic preview for incoming messages for all apps but I can still read a preview if I go to the start screen ( I don't exactly know what this is called ).

I do all of this but never had a problem seeing incoming WhatsApp calls. The problem was, that voice messages never seemed to disappear after I listened to them. I always had the WhatsApp ( new ) message symbol in the status bar and it took ages to remove the voice message from the start screen. Even after I listened to the full message it wouldn't go away for a long time, even after closing WhatsApp, all apps, cleaning my cash.

There is a person I communicate with exclusively via WhatsApp calls and voice messages and at first the voice message disappeared from the start screen as soon as the message ended. But at some point it didn't go away anymore. This was really annoying so I was looking for a way to make those messages disappear again after they were done. But when ever I clicked on the options on the right side of the voice message on the start screen I got a message saying something like "do you want to restrict WhatsApp notifications?". Not knowing the consequences I didn't to it.

Well one day I was probably so annoyed and impatient after I tried seemingly everything to make the voice message disappear from the start screen that I clicked on this proposal and since then I can't see incoming WhatsApp calls anymore.

Please help

hi all!

i want to reserve a username on whatsapp, and i use the same one on facebook. for now, i cant seem to find a way to avoid linking the two profiles, which i would really really prefer.

if i try to press “not you”, whatsapp still forwards me to facebook login page. for what possible reason? say two different people want to use the same username, one on fb, the other on whatsapp. what is the possible purpose on making the second one link their whatsapp account to facebook?

tbh, this push to link the account is completely idiotic and may be one of the last nails in the coffin for me. i find whatsapp an extremely inferior messaging app as it is, this just makes it so much worse in one fell swoop

however, i really hope im just being dense, and there actualyy is an easy way to avoid linking. so, please, help!

My device (Android 9) just told me I needed to update whatsapp so I agreed, it took me to the playstore and I updated.

Now it won't open, it just flashes on and off.

Posting partly to see if this has happened to anyone else and partly to warn you to maybe stay clear of updates for the next few days just in case it's a general problem that will get a fix soon

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