I can’t log in at WhatsApp web anymore since 15.7 iPadOS. It says that I need to update to safari 11

How I upgrade safari if I just upgraded to 15.7 iPadOS today. I really use WhatsApp web because you never release it as an app….

iPad Pro, iPadOS 15

Posted on Sep 12, 2022 8:00 PM

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Posted on Sep 29, 2022 12:21 AM

Not sure if you still have this problem.


Two solutions:


Install either Firefox or Chrome in addition to Safari and follow the normal process


or:


When you do it in Safari and get this irritating message about having to update to Safari 11 click on the Aa-‘icon’ on the address bar (of Safari) and select: Choose mobile website. :-)


Not sure what Apple charged in the default settings or rather, why they did so, but ‘problem’ solved.


KR


Willem

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Sep 30, 2022 1:44 AM in response to SentSei

Hmmm, I replied before, but seems to have been ‘deleted’.


The solution is simple:


on the WA webpage, so where you receive the error, click/tick on the Aa ‘icon’ left in the address bar (so where you type in the site name),

then choose ‘Ask for mobile webpage


and see, you get the QR-code to link/connect your phone again.


Not sure what (default) settings Apple changed in the updated Safari/ /15.7 OS, nor why they don’t share this ‘solution’, nor why they seem to even hide/remove it.


Sep 30, 2022 2:15 AM in response to willem_R

willem_R wrote:
Hmmm, I replied before, but seems to have been ‘deleted’.


Your earlier reply is still here; scroll up a little bit.


Apple changed nothing. It's the "WhatsApp Web" site that is defective. From what you describe, it's limited to their desktop version of that site — the only one whose page source I examined:


Examining the page source for "WhatsApp Web" yields the following supported browsers:

Chrome
Firefox
Microsoft Edge
Opera

That is all.



willem_R wrote:
Not sure what (default) settings Apple changed in the updated Safari/ /15.7 OS, nor why they don’t share this ‘solution’, nor why they seem to even hide/remove it.


Apple cannot fix Meta's website any more than anyone else can.

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