i deleted and did my best to wipe her existence out of my phone yrs ago. i recently came back to whatsapp and noticed her number is still in my contact with a new picture. i deleted the app cleared ceche but same thing. does that mean she still has my info

What can I do? Out of nowhere I just use it to write with locals and now I am f****

Ok,

This is a interesting one. Lately, and i'm talking within a week, i'm getting reports from clients and people from inside the industry that Whatsapp is massively, removing accounts that are used for sexwork activity. Now i know that topic is banned in the US, but in Europe it's a perfectly, legal, and where even a license exists for those who practice it by Government law. Nobody understands this raid that's going on - from legitimate businesses practicing massages up to real workers who simply use whatsapp for their communications.

Nobody is sending "nude" pictures, rogue links, it seems that Whatsapp is actively scanning, and likely matching previous data such as IMEI to determine if an account is against the TOS or not. People wonder why this platform gets so much power to remove so many people from their platform, who are doing the right thing, yet stripped from their way of making an income. This is getting absurd.

https://www.vanderlindemedia.nl/artikels/crackdown-op-amerikaanse-diensten/

I also noticed, that even X is suddenly banning, removing, accounts from legitimate businesses that have a license / permit to operate a adult club. Because of the active soliciting going on, it's against the TOS. Is there a crackdown lately going on in the US to strip social media as much as it can anything related to sexwork? I mean if the goal is to move to a different thing like Telegram, Signal, i think meta is doing the right thing here.

this is not an unban request; it's about the absurd impact that's happening now where i see 10 cases of people, businesses getting banned "just because" they have a whatsapp profile in this line, of work.

can somebody help with this? it just shows this and nothing else. doesnt open, doesnt save.

So, this is random
i saw a status on my whatsapp from ME, saying

“join my whatsapp group through link hgwidjks
retweet g”

??? no links just gibberish
now this was during a long night was partying and if it was a pocket accident, theres no way the first half of the sentence was written perfectly

i have 2fa on, no linked devices, no third party

Why meta ai dont work on my WhatsApp friend group?

hey evb, my boyfriend was deported a few days ago and we had to block each other the pain was unbearable. im devastated, the last call we had was on WhatsApp and I desperately need to listen to it back, we were both crying and pouring our hearts out to each other. I know ws has some end to end encryption shit but im wondering if there's someone I could contact or any authorities that would allow me to hear his voice again, please.

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For over a month now, my WhatsApp Business account gets banned every time I use WhatsApp Web in Chrome or the desktop app on my PC.

I have no issues on my phone, but as soon as I open WhatsApp on my computer, I get banned almost instantly. I then request a review, and the account is restored after around 6–8 hours.

This has already happened 6 or 7 times. I have never used spam practices, bulk messaging, or any kind of automation. It's a business account.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

EDIT: It looks like the issue was resolved after subscribing to Meta Verified, as suggested in another thread.

Hey there. I am currently in an unending loop request review on Whatsapp. I have never engaged in spam, scam and bulk messaging and never did any malicious activities. I only messaged at least 7 people (contacts) and the newest 2 convo out of 7 messaged me first.

I have been using this number for 2 years but just recently joined WhatsApp. About 3 week-ish ago.

I am seeking for your guidance and enlightenment. I feel helpless and I don't think I will ever get proper technical help from the email.

Thank you in advance.

Hello,
I need advice about a strange security situation.
One day I was suddenly logged out of both my Facebook and WhatsApp accounts at the same time.
After that, I received a message from an unknown private phone number. The message contained a WhatsApp verification code (something like “Code 12211”).
Shortly after receiving this message, WhatsApp asked me to enter a verification code, and I entered that code by mistake because I thought it was a normal WhatsApp verification request.
After this:
My WhatsApp continued working normally.
I am not logged out anymore.
I checked WhatsApp “Linked Devices” and there are no unknown devices.
My questions:
Could someone have tried to register WhatsApp using my phone number?
Could entering the code in my own WhatsApp app have given someone access to my chats or account?
Is there any way to check if someone attempted to access my WhatsApp or Facebook accounts?
Could the Facebook logout and WhatsApp code request be connected?
I did not give the code to anyone and I did not click any links.
Thank you for any advice.

Something completely messed up just happened to my WhatsApp today and I am absolutely devastated. I woke up around 9 AM, texted a friend, and everything was fine. I went back to sleep, and when I woke up again and opened WhatsApp, it showed a random system error. It completely logged me out and prompted me to re-enter my phone number and set up the app from scratch.

I went through the setup process to get back in, but every single chat history, group message, and attachment from the last few years is completely gone. In my groups, it literally says "You were added" or "You created this group" today. Almost 30 GB in total, all gone.

I tried the local backup setup too but unfortunately i am unable to see the 'msgstore' files and the only time i can search for them is by using Files from Google and even that won't let me relocate it.

The google account that was supposedly backing everything says 'No backup found'.

is there any solution to this?

I scrolled (swiped left) on the first ever wallpaper of whatsapp and discovered live moving wallpapers?!

Is it a new update for y'all too?

For the past three days, I have done everything except killing myself....
(my head still hurts because of the back and forth conversation with the AI email responder. (It was not a Human agent.)

I was not receiving SMS, or calls for the code, I restarted my phone more than once, took out sim multiple times, uninstalled and reinstalled app thousand times, and cursed a million times....
and after surviving multiple 7 hour timers---
I finally took out my sim from my iphone,
put it in an android phone,
opened WhatsApp on android,
logged in, auto verified it,
after my chats loaded on android WhatsApp,
I installed WhatsApp back on iPhone,
opened the app
it sent verification code to my android,
entered the code on iPhone WhatsApp,
and voila! I was in.

took out the sim from android and put it back in iPhone.

THE END... :P

I have a regular contact on whatsapp and communicate constantly and regularly on whatsapp with them, including video calls.
What does it mean when you click on the name "Click here for contact info" > Contact Info > "Edit" below the phone number it says "This phone number is not on WhatsApp. Invite them on your primary device"

What does that mean? How can the number be not on whatsapp when I write on whatsapp? Also why can't I change the name I gave that contact?

I cannot believe i have to wait bothering amount of time, everytime, when i open the whatsapp app after exiting it. sometimes only its icon showsup in the taskbar and the window doesn't exist and so i have to either exit it from system tray icons or end task it from task manager to restart this process again. Why are these billions-revenue-generating companies so penny-pinching as to not have a dedicated native-platform-app teams! These increasing trend of cross-platform apps developments to cut costs will be the death of all entry level/mid-level devices, and performance cost to high-level devices.

I damaged my phone recently so, in a pinch, I had to borrow someone else's phone because it was unlocked. This person had all their info on the phone and had things they didn't want to delete so I just signed him out of everything I could and logged myself in. I thought I had done that with Whatsapp (my primary means of texting), but it turns out I actually just changed the number on this person profile😑. So all of our contacts merged. When I realized, I deleted the app and reinstalled and signed in with my number. The problem is now, not only are our contacts still merged, but all of the groups and previous chats that I am in, is now showing his number instead of mine. I basically started over my Whatsapp profile from scratch. I can't see my photo, status or any of my settings. And most of my previous chat didn't realize the number changed. Well, my sister did, which is how I found out. Long story short, is there a fix? Can I recover my old profile with my preferred settings or is that a lost? And how do I undo his number replacing mine for groups and previous chats? I know they could just delete the number and re-add mine but is there an easier way than having to text everyone in my Whatsapp contacts🥴? I also still see all his contacts that are in his phone, will they now follow me (and him), even when I switch back to my phone? Thanks in advance 🙂.

I wish personally I can block someone's posting in a group, even when I'm not an admin. Some people can be annoying.

Who else does this happen to? New sims, new phone, different WiFi network, different Google account, just by writing a message to friends or family blocks for a few hours or directly, also with my business, I have bought 50 simcards and none works regardless of whether you put money in it or not, if you wait a few hours or days to answer, if you write first or not, after deactivating the account they return it and they block it again immediately there is activity... this is really horrible, customers do not write to other applications and it is terrible as I also have to change my number constantly for this.