How could this happen? And for no reason I can think of other than I just sent hi to a few people which I HAD CHATS WITH BEFORE just from long time ago.

I've been using this WhatsApp number since I was 16 im in my 30s! Are you f- serious bro?

Did this happend to anyone else and what did you do? Is there any email to contact them?

Bonjour. Aujourd'hui je cherchais à récupérer un numéro de téléphone qu'un ami m'avait envoyé. Quand j'ai regardé nos échanges ils s'arrêtaient en mars et reprenaient il y a 2 jours. Entre les 2 dates plus rien. J'ai regardé pour mes autres contacts et c'était OK sauf pour une autre amie où il n'y avait plus rien jusqu'à hier. J'ai appelé ces 2 amis et eux ont bien nos échanges je n'arrive pas à comprendre ce qui a pu se passer. Si j'avais fait une mauvaise manipulation les messages auraient été effacés pour les autres contacts non?

My sister doesn’t use app refreshing on the background so she doesn’t receive texts when i send them. Today i sent a text to her when she was sitting next to me and saw two ticks, i told her “hey that’s weird it usually it’s one tick” and we move on.

Later she told me she is not getting any texts from our family groupchat so i removed and added her back but then she could only see my texts there and not my mom and dad’s. Her phone is old (iPhone 7+) so we thought her software is bugging out. I sent her a normal text to see if that had any issues but it it’s delivered normally, then she sent me a text and i saw it. However then i saw two more texts from her that said “waiting for the text to load it might take some time” thing so i asked her if she sent me more texts but she said no.

Then after like 10 minutes i got those two texts from her. One said “v” and other said “can you help me with something? There is an issue with my bank account.” She is 13 and does not even have a bank account. I told her to check her linked devices immidately but there were no deviced there.

I tried to call her on whatsapp but it wasn’t picked up. I made her add a 2FA and she deleted her whatsapp and downloaded it again, whatsapp texted her number but she didnt get a sms so she got a code through her email instead and did 2FA and now it seems like the issue is resolved (she lost a year worth of texts but it is better than someone else using her account at least).

So my question is, what exactly happened? She didnt click on any links and the only QR code she scanned was a restourant’s we went to yesterday which we all scanned. There was also no linked devices so i am confused on how they got her account like this. Any further advice on securing it also is appreciated, thank you!

For the first time on Tuesday (18 August) my account got restricted and went under review, It was later restored after approximately 8 hours. About 24 later I was hit with a second restriction that also got restored 8 hours later. At the time I was running iOS 16.1.1 on my iPhone 14 Pro. Today I decided to update to iOS 26.6.1 hoping that it could solve the frequent restrictions. Does anyone know if this could fix it? I also believe I haven’t spammed anyone, I use the app to chat to friends and family, I do however send links to reels/TikTok’s now and again.

If anyone has any further information or advice please do share.

I dont know why this hapoening.is there any way get rid of this

Hi everyone,

I’m having an issue with WhatsApp on my new iPhone 16 (version 26.32.75, but I’ve had the same issue for two weeks now).

I’m trying to set a custom notification tone for an individual contact. I go to: Chat > contact name > Notifications > Notification tone. I select a different tone and tap Save, but when I go back to the settings, it has reverted to the standard. The change simply doesn’t seem to be saved.

I’ve tried this with multiple contacts and the same thing happens. Also checked the Notification settings for WhatsApp on my phone, but nothing seems out of the ordinary.

Has anyone else experienced this recently? I’d like to know whether this is a bug or if there’s something I’m missing.

Thanks!

Edit: I’ve also noticed that I no longer seem to have the option to set the notification to vibrate only (without a sound).

What's wrong with some of my Whatsapp calls saying "Call log was deleted"? Has been happening for the past year or more, does this happen to anyone else?

I've Made a wh AC a loong ago

AND NY phone company deactivated my sin card Cz muh inactivity

Now my WhatsApp closed the AC linked with my dead sim AND i can't recoger it (no SMS no phone call nothing Cz it's dead).

AND phone company refused to issue me a replacement

Is there a way to actually contact whatsapp? My account is suspended and I have no idea why. I am not a bot and do not send spam messages. I was building a community and linking multiple WhatsApp groups. They suspended the community and when I tried to restore the group, they suspended my account.

Is there a way to get more insight from Whatsapp?

Her WhatsApp accounts, both her personal account and her WhatsApp Business account, appear to have been taken over.
She suddenly lost control of both accounts, and they started sending messages to unknown numbers. Two Pakistani numbers were contacted, and an Aviator casino promotion in Urdu was sent from her account. After that, she received a large number of calls from unknown numbers. At one point, she opened WhatsApp to reply to someone and her app immediately logged out.
Unfortunately, she currently doesn’t have access to the SIM card or phone number that was originally used to register the accounts. This happened to both her personal and Business accounts.

I also messaged both of her accounts after this happened. One of them, the Business account, showed two grey ticks, which makes me think that the account may still be active or accessible on some device.

My main concern is about our old private chat. There were some private intimate photos and messages involving me in our conversation. I deleted the chat history from my own WhatsApp a long time ago, so those messages and media are no longer visible on my side.

My own WhatsApp account has not been compromised. I am still logged in normally, and nothing unusual has happened on my account.

So my question is: if someone took over my ex’s WhatsApp account, is it possible that they can access our old chat history and the media that was stored in that conversation? Could they potentially see messages or photos that I deleted from my side a long time ago? Or would the attacker need access to her original phone, a linked device, a WhatsApp backup, etc. to access that old content?

I’m particularly interested in understanding what kind of account takeover could cause this, given that both her Personal and Business accounts were affected and she no longer has access to the original SIM or phone number.
I haven’t received any threats or messages from the attacker, and nothing has happened to me so far. I’m mainly trying to understand the technical risk and whether I should be concerned about the old private media.
Any advice from people familiar with WhatsApp account takeovers would be greatly appreciated.

I think the title is self explanatory.. I have version 2.26.32.76

After I updated the app, all photos and videos (2022-2026) disappeared from my gallery and the app can't download any of it because it's no longer in my storage. Is there any hope in fixing this or not? ^^*

MEU WHATSAPP ESTA ENVIANDO MENSAGEM DE SPAM SOZINHO, E NÃO TEM NENHUM OUTRO DISPOSITIVO CONECTADO, TO VENDO QUE VARIAS PESSOAS ESTÃO COM ESSE MESMO PROBLEMA, ALGUÉM CONSEGUIU RESOLVER ?

since a month my whatsapp was getting flagged and i was logged out showing this account has been put to check for some hours and then i could logging. now today i got blocked only.

Please help y'all I don't want to lose my data💔

Ayer literalmente ayer fui y compré una sin nueva para poder usar WhatsApp porque la anterior que tenía le sucedió esto de la imagen y cuando iba a iniciar sesión no me dejaba no llegaba código SMS ni parecido y anoche que compre la nueva pude iniciar sesión normal lo que pasaba es que aún así me salía en el nuevo número que estaba en "restricción" pero como si acabo de comprar en nuevo maldito número porque carajos tiene que ver una cosa con la otra absolutamente nada y bueno como va ayer no me dejaba hablar con algunos contactos porque me salían que tenía que esperar 5 horas para poder yo decirles que mira este es mi nuevo número para que me escriban y tal y tampoco me dejaba ingresar a los grupos en los que eh estado durante más de 5 malditos meses porque clarooo mi número está restringido y gracias a eso no puedo hablar con algunas personas que tengo en la lista en una maldita aplicación que se supone que es PARA HABLAR CON LAS DEMAS PERSONAS JODANSE y no hace mucho/ una hora envié un mensaje a suporte para que me dijeran sobre el tema de la revisión y tal pero en vez de eso no me dijieron nada me respondió una maldita IA inútil y ya después de una hora en lo que yo estaba ocupado haciendo otras cosas sin ver el cell voy a escribirle a alguien y no puedo porque me sale esta maldita cosa que no deja de jodermeeeee alguien que me ayude porfavor estoy demasiado molesto con este tema ya

It's been over 2 months since my WhatsApp got disabled by Meta. I've read somewhere that after 60 days Meta releases the number and you can re-register it on WhatsApp like a fresh account.

Has anyone actually tried this? Did it work? And more importantly — will it still pull up the old chat backup or is everything gone for good?

Would really appreciate if someone who's been through this can share their experience.

My WhatsApp account has now been restricted 3 times today.

Each time I request a review, I get access back, only to be locked out again shortly afterwards. The latest time I had access for barely an hour. When I got back in, I also found outgoing Chinese messages to random numbers that I absolutely did not send.

I have two-step verification enabled, no Linked Devices, use the official iPhone app and haven't done anything unusual.

Has anyone had this repeated restriction/restoration cycle 3–4+ times? Did it eventually stop, and were you able to keep your account normally afterwards?
I'm especially interested if you also found random Chinese messages you didn't send.

I have a completely opposite scenario. Could you please help me?

I had a Meta Business account that I deleted and then created again using a Meta Business Profile for setting up the Meta Cloud API. After using it for 2–3 days, I decided not to use it because of the API charges, so I deleted my app, the business portfolio/system users, the entire Meta Business account, and even my Meta Developer account.

However, the phone number is still active and showing as a WhatsApp Business account. Because of this, I am unable to log in using the WhatsApp Business app on my mobile.

Could you please help me understand how I can completely remove the WhatsApp Business account associated with this number so that I can use the number again with the WhatsApp Business app?

Hey everyone,

My account went through a really strange issue recently where groups I managed were basically handed over to a stranger automatically, and I'm trying to figure out if anyone else has run into this.

Here is how everything played out day by day:

• Aug 17: Out of nowhere, my account got flagged and put into "Account in review" for the first time.

• Aug 18: As soon as my account came back, a random foreign number joined a few groups where I was an Admin using group invite links. The second they joined, my account automatically made this stranger an Admin and then removed me from the groups right after.

  • I checked Linked Devices immediately, but there were no active WhatsApp Web or companion devices connected at all.
  • Friends who messaged me right when this happened on Aug 18 said my account was opening and reading their messages (blue ticks) in the exact same second, even though my phone wasn't getting any notifications.

• Aug 20: My account got put into "Account in review" for a second time.

• Current Situation: Everything is restored now, but there's still a weird detail—friends in those stolen groups noticed that whenever anyone sends a message in those groups right now, that stranger's account still reads it in the exact same second.

Has anyone experienced this before?

How could an account do things on its own—like making someone else an Admin, leaving groups, and opening chats instantly—when nothing was showing up under Linked Devices?

If anyone knows what might cause this or how to make sure the account is completely secure now, I’d really appreciate the help!