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 used WhatsApp as our primary messenger, but the strange story of filtering this messenger made us go back to the lovely Telegram.

Even with the decrease in users on WhatsApp, thousands of links are sent daily by different users. Still, certain types of links can cause your smartphone to crash, so it is better to pay attention to them 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 is straightforward, first noticed on Twitter and then noticed by the big websites of the technology world. You can create a crash loop by entering the “was. me/settings” link in WhatsApp. 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; 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 entirely by clicking on these links. The behavior of this bug is somewhat different in different versions of WhatsApp on other 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, and you must not reopen the chat that contains the link in any way.

Another way to avoid this annoying bug is to use WhatsApp’s web version. We suggest 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.

Please share your experience with Gadget News and its users. Did they send you this link too? What happened to your phone?