This only happens on the web, i use firefox but i tried edge and chrome. Even now, whatsapp app syncs on a macbook but not on windows laptop. Whatsoup is a web scraper that exports your entire whatsapp chat history to plaintext, csv, or html formats.
It will start fresh and for me it is now blazing fast. I have been limited to using whatsapp web since the last 2 months. I can still do that though the phone if it's really needed, but that's a bit of a hassle.
But this really sucks, every time that whatsapp releases an update, this happens. I made it after discovering that whatsapp limits exports/backups to a maximum of 40k messages, plaintext exports only, and completely skips/deletes messages that have media attached to it (more background is on my blog if you care to read). Whatsapp desktop app and whatsapp web are two different ways to access whatsapp account on computers. I tried everything from uninstalling whatsapp, reinstalling it, even tried on a brand new windows laptop but it didn't work.
R/whatsapp is home to the online messaging platform owned by meta. Open whatsapp web in chrome web browser, f12 (enter dev tools), now go to application tab and delete all indexeddb one by one. Hey all, i'm using the web desktop version of whatsapp quite a lot, and since yesterday i noticed that i can no longer send people links. It happens to me on any computer.
I'm using whatsapp web instead and using the feature download app from chrome which allow me to have the whatsapp web as an independent window and right now it works better than the official desktop app for catalina. Apple isnโt blocking whatsapp, as evidenced by the fact that whatsapp is available for macs. You do realize that whatsapp is a meta product, and apple has absolutely no control over metaโs decisions or plans! Truer/whatsapp is home to the online messaging platform owned by meta.
Once apple opens this whatsapp on ipad, i believe more users would move to apple ecosystem. News, updates and general discussions about the app can be posted here.