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Whatsapp crashes automatically

Hey


i was talking with someone on WhatsApp. Closed the application and then clicked on notification but app started crashing constantly.


I turned off-on phone. No change

i uninstalled and installed back the app, no change


it just opens for half sec then automatically closes. I have a video but ofc can't add here so here is the screenshot

iPhone SE, iOS 15

Posted on Apr 4, 2023 1:03 PM

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Posted on Apr 4, 2023 1:31 PM

dawid40 wrote:

Hey

i was talking with someone on WhatsApp. Closed the application and then clicked on notification but app started crashing constantly.

I turned off-on phone. No change
i uninstalled and installed back the app, no change

it just opens for half sec then automatically closes. I have a video but ofc can't add here so here is the screenshot
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/20ca6326-2c8d-430a-afb2-44862c766411

Report the issue to whatsapp and look here https://faq.whatsapp.com/

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Apr 4, 2023 1:31 PM in response to dawid40

dawid40 wrote:

Hey

i was talking with someone on WhatsApp. Closed the application and then clicked on notification but app started crashing constantly.

I turned off-on phone. No change
i uninstalled and installed back the app, no change

it just opens for half sec then automatically closes. I have a video but ofc can't add here so here is the screenshot
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/20ca6326-2c8d-430a-afb2-44862c766411

Report the issue to whatsapp and look here https://faq.whatsapp.com/

Apr 4, 2023 1:36 PM in response to dawid40

dawid40 wrote:

Hey

i was talking with someone on WhatsApp. Closed the application and then clicked on notification but app started crashing constantly.

How did you close the application? If you did it by going to the quick-launch app and swiping up on WhatsApp you probably hopelessly corrupted the WhatsApp database on the phone. That is a bad practice in general; it provides no benefit, and can damage any app’s database because it terminates the app before it can save its state if you do it very quickly.


Apr 4, 2023 2:06 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

So I guess it was some kind of hack somebody tried to do on me.


some random person I never seen / heard before asked me on WhatsApp a strange question that included some real info about myself.


imagine a stranger asking out of nowhere if you are let's say a tour guide from X (where X is your country). That's what happened. I answered, yes I'm from X but I'm not tour guide and how u have my number





then she continued to the point I was asked to add some number. You can see my answer. "Why u just dont write from another number??" Which happened 21:40




right after my message on 21:40 I closed an app and got notification around 30s later which I clicked immediately and crashed my app Andora kept crashing my app every single time I wanted to open it. As u can see this person is gone second after. Not online after 21:41


I fixed it myself by installing WhatsApp business and moving my number there since installing normal WhatsApp again didn't work at all. I guess crash might have been saved on iCloud since I wasn't able to download it normally - only from iCloud.


be careful guys!!


[Image Edited by Moderator to Remove Personal Information]

Whatsapp crashes automatically

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