Stops connecting to Whatsapp after a while

[matejdro]

For me, it seems like Whatsie's connection with Whatsapp will break after a week or two. Messages will not be sent (clock icon shown next to a message and eventually timing out with the "Something went wrong" error) and new incoming messages will sometimes be downloaded, but most of the time not.

Only solution seems to be to logout and re-pair, but it will break again in a while.

Is there a way to toggle Developer Options or something else to be able to extract more info out of it?

[Iceman248]

I've had the same issue happen over and over again for months.

[luciph0r]

Mine gets stuck on the loading chats screen now, after earlier facing the same broken connection issue.

[Joe1962]

Mine gets stuck on the loading chats screen now, after earlier facing the same broken connection issue.

Same here. Version 4.16.3, on LMDE 6. Was working ok till a few days ago, then not syncing, and now, just stops at 100%.

[JoelInman-Dev]

App now failing to load chats for a couple of days. Last week it was loading chats and messages, but then failed when sending messages.

installed through the software store with Flatpak V4.16.3, running on Thinkpad T14 Fedora Workstation 40

[JoelInman-Dev]

found a temporary workaround for Linux users wanting a desktop whatsapp whilst this is being looked into.

Visit the Whatsapp web edition in your browser, Right click your tab and click "install Whatsapp".

I have done this in Vivaldi browser, but I believe it to be a Chromium feature, so it should work with Brave, Opera, Chrome etc too

Note: it does not install the actual whatsapp app

[vmajor]

...been like this for years. I hate to gripe, but there is no debug option and it almost works, but does not, which makes it super frustrating.

A temporary fix is to 'clear' in 'Settings'. That resumes the expected functionality, until it dies again.