If you send this link to your WhatsApp friends, their phone will crash
June 11, 1402 at 20:00
A simple link can become a nightmare for WhatsApp users. The link we’re talking about can allow ordinary users to jailbreak their own or other people’s phones without any knowledge of the hacking world.
Until a few months ago, millions of us Iranians used WhatsApp as our main messenger, but the strange story of filtering this messenger made us go back to the lovely Telegram. Even with the decrease of Iranian users on WhatsApp, thousands of links are sent daily by different users, but certain types of links can cause your smartphone to crash, so it is better to pay attention to it before clicking on any link.
Clicking on this link in WhatsApp causes the phone to crash
WhatsApp is a secure messenger, but unfortunately it has known bugs that can get on your nerves. One of the latest discovered WhatsApp bugs is related to a link that causes WhatsApp to crash. Unfortunately, Android users are victims of this bug this time, and clicking on this link on iOS will not cause any problems for you.
This link, which was first noticed on Twitter and then noticed by the big websites of the technology world, is very simple. You can create a crash loop by entering this link “wa.me/settings” in WhatsApp. Apparently, this problem targets both regular users and users of the business version of WhatsApp. In our tests, it was found that WhatsApp version 2.23.10.77 is the most affected by this bug, but in the WhatsApp version 2.23.6.76 test on a Samsung Galaxy S31 phone with Android 12, WhatsApp crashed, but there was no loop crash. In the latest version of WhatsApp for the Android operating system on the Galaxy A52S with Android 13, there was no crash when clicking on this link, and WhatsApp informed us that you should download the update to open this type of link. This is while we had installed the latest version of Whatsapp from Google Play Store.
How to avoid this WhatsApp bug?
Usually, by clicking on this link, nothing special should happen and you should go to the settings of the WhatsApp program. However, a bug in WhatsApp caused the program to crash completely by clicking on these links. The behavior of this bug is somewhat different in different versions of WhatsApp on different phones, and as we announced, there may be no news of crashing the app or the phone at all.
However, if your phone is vulnerable to this bug, you have no way to prevent it You should never reopen the chat that contains the link.
Another way to avoid this annoying bug is to use the web version of WhatsApp. Our suggestion is that you don’t try to write this link in a chat, because there is a possibility that your phone will crash. Of course, if you can still use WhatsApp, it is good to know that WhatsApp will probably be disabled on your phone soon.
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