Malicious Vcards with Unsupported Characters Causing WhatsApp Crash

Over the by few years, WhatsApp has suffered from multiple bugs that lead to crashes on both Android phones and iPhones. Another such message that crashes popular messaging app, WhatsApp, is now allegedly doing the rounds on the internet.

According to tipster WABetaInfo, the bug is prevalent in Brazil. The tipster mentions various user reports from Brazilian WhatsApp users. These messages are ordinarily vcards filled with unsupported characters. It is worth noting that this is non a new issues and information technology has been around for years. WhatsApp, nonetheless, has not fixed information technology yet.

While the official version of WhatsApp doesn't include whatsoever set up, unofficial WhatsApp mods apparently have added 'Crashcode protection' to prevent such incidents from taking identify. However, nosotros would not recommend using them since your privacy may get compromised.

Every bit a preventive measure, it is recommended to set your group privacy settings to My Contacts so that you don't get added in groups having these crash messages. To practice so, open up WhatsApp and go to Settings -> Account -> Privacy -> Groups -> My Contacts.

If you have received such a message, there are 2 possible solutions. For those who have connected the device with WhatsApp Web, you could simply open the chat from your PC and delete the message. In one case you have deleted the message, WhatsApp should part normally.

If that doesn't work, you lot're left with no other choice than reinstalling WhatsApp. You don't have to uninstall and install once again, though. You tin merely go to the app'southward settings and clear data for the app to sign in over again. While you're at it, exercise non forget to restore chat history if you have a contempo fill-in.