WhatsApp Web dawned in English for some Brazilian users this Friday (22). According to Twitter reports and searches on Google Trends (Google's search monitoring tool), the messenger PC version changed language alone. Apparently, the bug affects both people who have both stable and beta edition of the app installed on their mobile phone, regardless of operating system (Android or iOS). It is not possible to manually port WhatsApp Web the language of the messenger is usually set automatically by the user localization.
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Wanted by dnetcWhatsApp has not provided official positioning, but has stated that it is investigating and suspects that this is a temporary error caused by some application update.
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Starting at 8am today, Google Trends has seen a sudden increase in searches for the term "whatsapp web in English". The search for "How to put WhatsApp Web in Portuguese" also has a high rate of interest, which shows an attempt by users to fix the bug. However, the web version of messenger does not have a native function for language setting.
The user may resort to some tricks to try to change the language of WhatsApp Web to Portuguese. Some options are just to check if there are updates available for the application, log out of the PC account and log in again or check if the location of the phone is correct. Another alternative is to check if the mobile app is in the right language.
Since the bug's appearance, several users have come to Twitter to complain about the bug.
In this whole story of speaking English or not, I take the opportunity to confess a toc that I have: When, out of nowhere, some app goes from Portuguese to English. Type now my web whatsapp that was all in English out of nowhere. "Guy is typing" my hate.
– November 22, 2019
My whatsApp Web is all worked in English. I think the universe telling me to learn English as soon as possible.
– November 22, 2019
The language change is not the only sudden change WhatsApp experienced this week: The Android mobile app changed the spelling of the word "online" to "online" on Tuesday, which also displeased many users. .
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