WhatsApp beta bug breaks chat history — here`s what`s going on
(Android Central)

Not able to see older messages on WhatsApp? You`re not the only one. WhatsApp just rolled out two new features to its platform: multi-device beta that lets you stay logged in to four devices at once without requiring your phone, and View Once photos and videos that disappear after they`ve been opened once. But with the update to WhatsApp beta 2.21.16.9, there is a peculiar bug that prevents you from seeing older chat messages. I noticed the bug over the weekend: in any given conversation, I can only view the last 25 messages, and then I get an infinite loading icon that doesn`t do anything. Having just switched over to a new device, I figured something went wrong with the import, so I deleted the app and did a fresh restore, but the problem persisted. Thankfully, it doesn`t look like the chat history itself is affected; I was able to access older messages by using the search feature. But right now, there`s no way to scroll up in a conversation to access messages older than a few d...