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by Phlow 3337 days ago
I honestly don't even want to watch this, out of spite.

Whatsapp is so damn frustrating to me and the people I talk to.

The microphone button is so finicky that I lose hours of my week to trashed messages. I don't know if it's the size of the button being so tiny that a man's thumb easily hangs over the edges, triggering the trash feature with the slightest movement, or some other strange bug. A call comes in, message trashed. An alarm, message trashed. I've literally recorded a 10 minute message and lost it, condensed it to 5 minutes and lost it, condensed it to an angry 2 minutes and lost it and then just given up...

Then there's the volume. Why do I have to crank Whatsapp up so high in my car that EVERY OTHER audio event blows my ears out?

How are these huge usability problems not being fixed with the amount of money that was thrown at it?

I can't find anyone or anywhere to complain about it either. The Contact Us area of the application REQUIRES you to give them your full contact list before you proceed.

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This!!! I would upvote 1000 times if I could. I appreciate Whatsapp's features but voice recording is just broken. I experience this same frustration... I tried submitting feedback through the app and it failed and lost what I wrote due to the default mail client not being configured. Oh the irony.

Please fix. These are minor changes.