WhatsApp. A very serious problem that affects users all over the world appeared at the end of 2018, and continues to cause headaches for users who face it on their phones. More precisely, it seems that certain conversations from the user history started to disappear from the WhatsApp application, all without any prior warning, and all without being able to recover them if a preliminary data backup was not made.
WhatsApp. For now, only the conversations on Android phones have started to disappear from the phones, and from what users say, only the ones older than June 2018 have been automatically deleted from their devices. Some users went so far as to reinstall the operating system, along with the WhatsApp application, in an attempt to recover their old conversations, but it seems that nothing worked, and they were left without the messages they thought they had. they still have
WhatsApp deletes old conversations from phones without any warning
WhatsApp. Unfortunately, the company behind the platform did not offer any explanation for this problem, nor any solution, so for now users are left with only complaints made to the engineering teams. It's hard to say why the conversations from the WhatsApp application would suddenly start disappearing, but the biggest problem is that they can't be recovered very easily, at least not without a backup, and they are no longer offered for free in Google Drive.
WhatsApp. Until now, the application has not encountered problems of this kind, but during 2018 the information from its servers was transferred to Facebook's, so it is possible that some data was lost. Of course, this is an explanation that currently has no real support behind it, so it remains to be seen if there will be any official details regarding what happened to the messages lost by users so far.