WhatsApp: Messages arrive late - what to do?
If your WhatsApp messages arrive late, this is mostly due to your smartphone and not to WhatsApp itself. We will show you how to solve the problem.
WhatsApp: Messages arrive late - what to do?
- Restart: If it is only a temporary problem, simply switch your smartphone off and on again. Small problems in the buffer are thus solved.
- Network: Check whether the problem occurs both in the mobile network and in the WLAN. If the messages arrive late on a network, there is a problem here.
- Android: There are numerous factors under Android that cause the problem, which is why it mostly occurs here. You will find all possible solutions for Android smartphones in the next paragraph.
- Installation: If none of this helped, uninstall WhatsApp. You can then download the current version of WhatsApp for iOS and WhatsApp for Android.
WhatsApp messages arrive late - further help for Android
- Background data: If you have limited the background data, no messages are retrieved from WhatsApp. This can be easily solved: You activate the background synchronization in just four steps.
- WLAN: Open the "Settings" app and select the "Advanced" item under the "WLAN" category using the menu button. Deactivate "WLAN optimization" here and activate the option "Leave WLAN switched on in standby mode".
- App: Check if you have installed a new app since the problems occurred. On Android smartphones, the apps can get in the way quickly and cause problems like this.
- Task killers: So-called task killers end processes of unused apps to save battery and memory. However, if WhatsApp is also closed, messages can no longer be received. Therefore, deactivate a possible task killer app.
- Fixer: Download the free Push Notifications Fixer from the Play Store. The application checks whether your push notifications are working properly and corrects any problems.
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