We’re investigating a compatibility issue between WhatsApp and Contact Scopes impacting push notifications. It started in the past couple days via a WhatsApp update, Google Play update or November Android Security Bulletin patches we shipped Monday before the stock OS today.

Issue appears to be caused by one of the November 2024 Android Security Bulletin patches we shipped early on Monday interacting poorly with our Contact Scopes feature. We’re working on confirming it and implementing a workaround for Contact Scopes + WhatsApp push compatibility.

A new release of Android is in the process of being published today and we’ll be quickly moving to being based on it as we always do. We’ll try to include a workaround for this WhatsApp issue in today’s release. We can add a temporary workaround and switch to a cleaner fix later.

This issue is resolved in the latest release of GrapheneOS pushed out via Alpha and Beta last night. Has been rolling out to everyone since earlier today:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2024110700

The security patch is strangely not in the mainline Android releases yet but we’re including it.