By Yuan Ren For Mailonline
Published: 12:40 GMT, 15 January 2019 | Updated: 14:48 GMT, 16 January 2019
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WhatsApp users have reported their messages are being deleted without warning.
The incident seems to be affecting Android phones and has reportedly hit both older and more recent messages.
WhatsApp users have taken to Twitter to vent their anger about the missing data.
It is thought that a bug could be causing the problem, although WhatsApp itself has not confirmed whether this is the case.
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WhatsApp messages are being deleted on Android phones without warning. Users have reported old and new messages disappearing. The app said last year that it would delete some messages which are not backed up on the Google Drive, which is free for WhatsApp users
WABetaInfo, a WhatsApp leak site highlighted the problem on the social media site and received numerous replies that seem to confirm the bug theory.
WhatsApp currently lets users backup messages on Google Drive for free and announced last year that it would start deleting old messages that were only backed
