WhatsApp will stop working tomorrow on a large list of Android phones and some iPhones. A chat app that gets many updates, but is now falling flat an experience no one would want in their daily life with this wide-ranging application in Europe.
The amount of texts sent or received through this app is almost impossible to measure, and some of them may include that time when any user type in your mobile a URL address which manages to block the application to bring it to an infinite cycle of untimely closures one after the other.
And it’s not just any URL that no one would use, it has to do with with access to the settings of the app itself, similar to the one used when you click WhatsApp buttons that appear on many websites. Thanks to them, the application starts automatically, whether from its mobile, desktop or web version.
Access app settings
Brute Bee on Twitter has found this issue and shows that when the URL ‘wa.me/settings’ is typed in a message in any chat in the app, an infinite “loop” is started which leads to a continuous closing of the application; what is normally called a “crash”. At the moment this problem is only present in WhatsApp for Android, but it affects both the version for users and the one dedicated to companies or companies.
There the affected version of the app is 2.23.10.77, although others may suffer the same consequences. This URL is part of the same WhatsApp experience to access its settings, which happens when this bug closes the app unexpectedly without anything being done to fix it at that exact moment. Well yes, there is a solution.
That is why! pic.twitter.com/QTO1dI4KcV
— Brute Bee (@BruteBee) May 29, 2023
The normal thing is that the application is restarted, but again this problem is returned so that this infinite cycle of shutdowns is started one after another. The temporary solution is jump to open chat or conversation where the mentioned URL was sent. But that doesn’t mean that when you open it, you’ll be back to that problem that completely breaks WhatsApp.
To remove the chat URL You have to go through the web version of WhatsApp, the only one that is currently not affected by the bug, and therefore delete the message. So it can return to its normal state according to Android Authority.
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