[Troubleshooting] How to Fix WhatsApp Connection Problem Within Minutes on iPhone

With the growth of today's technology and rapid Internet development, people's life become much more convenient due to many useful and helpful applications. For connecting people, there are many popular social media platforms provide free services such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Focusing on the messaging functionality, WhatsApp is getting much popular around the world today for providing the best communicating service to users for connecting with each other easily. Unlike using the traditional SMS, people need to pay for the fee of sending messages or calling out, WhatsApp relies on the Internet for carrying messages. Therefore, users don't need to use any extra fee while messaging, but only a good Internet connection.

Nevertheless, this also have some potential restrictions that may affect the messaging quality, especially when the network connection is poor. When WhatsApp suffers the connection problem, users may fail to send messages, or do other things on WhatsApp as usual. To help fix the problem, this blog collects the workable ways here. Spend a little time for watching and you can easily get out of the trouble when it happens suddenly.

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Part 1. Possible Reasons for WhatsApp Connection Problem (iOS User)

You may wonder why the WhatsApp connection problem happened on your iOS device unexpectedly. Actually, there are two main reasons that can easily lead to the problem, maybe when you are unconsciously. What are they?

The possible reasons that would result in WhatsApp connection problem are mainly divided into two main categories, including the network connection of your device, and the improper device settings.

We all know that WhatsApp relies on Internet for carrying the messages, in this way, it realizes people's demands for chatting online without paying fee for SMS. So when the WhatsApp connection problem appears, the first factor that may lead to the problem comes into our minds should be the fact that the network we are using now has gone wrong.

Another possible reason that is likely to cause WhatsApp connection problem is the settings we've made on our devices. The phone's settings cause certain incompatibility, therefore, some potential errors happens in different applications we installed.

If you are also in the trouble caused by WhatsApp connection problem, which greatly prevents you from connecting your contacts as usual, don't be concerned and simply scroll down the page now. In the following, several workable but efficient ways are provided to solve the unpleasant connection problem occurred in WhatsApp app. Check and fix it now!

Part 2. [Workable] Quick Hacks to Fix WhatsApp Connection Problem on iPhone

In most cases, the WhatsApp connection error is not complicated to fix. Before you turn to try the hacks below, you'd better know whether the problem is caused due to the network you are connecting you. If the WhatsApp connection problem happens because of the poor network environment you stay in, it can be solved with rather easy ways.

Here are the quick tips to solve the WhatsApp connection problem caused by a unreliable network.

* Switch to a faster hotspot if you are using Wi-Fi for browsing the net. Or you can restart the router to relaunch the Wi-Fi, which may let the network run fatse.

* For users who are using mobile data to message with WhatsApp, try to enable the Airplane mode and turn it off, letting the device to reconnect to a faster network.

* Make sure that the network you are connecting while using WhatsApp is not a managed one, for example, you are connecting to your office or school Wi-Fi, which is likely to be blocked or limits the network connections.

* If the Wi-Fi connection you are using now fails for browsing the net, you'd better contact the network administrator to help you figure out the problem and solve it.

After making sure that the Wi-Fi or mobile network connection is normal for browsing sites and load contents on your device, but WhatsApp connection problem still appears, you should consider that there is something wrong with your phone's settings. Follow the tips below to deal with WhatsApp connection problem happens due to some settings errors on your device.

* Restart your mobile phone for closing the running applications, system, and the settings that have come into effect currently. After reopening the device, try to launch WhatsApp and check whether the connection problem is solved.

* Update the WhatsApp software to the latest version on your device from Apple App Store, because in most cases, the new version would fix many bugs and improve the performance of the app.

* Except for updating WhatsApp software, updating the iOS system to the latest version, letting the system to be more compatible with WhatsApp app may do help.

* Make sure that the APN settings of your SIM card can perform normally. If you need help, please contact the mobile carrier you are using for instructions.

* If your device is connected to a VPN service, the performance of WhatsApp would be affected because it is not designed to be used with proxy or VPN. So you need to turn of the VPN or proxy service for trying to connect WhatsApp again.

* The final tips for fixing the WhatsApp connection problem is to reset the network settings again. Directly head to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. But remember that this would erase all the Wi-Fi passwords you've saved.

The next time when you encounter with WhatsApp connection problem again, just try through these methods to make it work normally again. Under most circumstances, the problem can be solved without paying much effort, especially when the problem happens only due to the network connection. After fixing the case, you can enjoy WhatsApp for chatting with your contacts again!