{"id":100659,"date":"2018-05-10T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T09:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=100659"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:30:38","slug":"dont-touch-this-button-on-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/dont-touch-this-button-on-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t touch this button on WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you touch the black circle, WhatsApp will crash. Don\u2019t Touch Here<\/blockquote>\r\n<\/div>\n

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In effect, touching the picture blocks your WhatsApp and you will have to restart the app. What happens? Is it a virus that infects your mobile forever and ever? Does it summon Thanos and his Infinity Gauntlet to eradicate life on Earth? Not exactly.<\/p>\n

The image in question hides thousands of characters (visible if you convert the image to .txt format).<\/p>\n

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There are so many characters that WhatsApp can\u2019t process them all, which causes the app to shut down. If you fall into this trap don\u2019t worry, all you\u2019ll have to do is restart the app.<\/p>\n

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\r\n WhatsApp Messenger<\/span>\r\n Download WhatsApp<\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n
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The best way to avoid falling into this trap is to not press the button or delete the image directly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What’s more, this image is nothing original. It is a copy of this older image:<\/p>\n

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Have you received this image? Did you bite? Or has a similar image ever reached you? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In effect, touching the picture blocks your WhatsApp and you will have to restart the app. What happens? Is it a virus that infects your mobile forever and ever? Does it summon Thanos and his Infinity Gauntlet to eradicate life on Earth? Not exactly. The image in question hides thousands of characters (visible if you … Continue reading “Don’t touch this button on WhatsApp”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2041,"featured_media":100660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2333],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-100659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328010,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100659\/revisions\/328010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100659"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=100659"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=100659"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=100659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}