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Solution for “Waiting for this message this may take a while” On Whatsapp

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Recently when I opened my WhatsApp and I was checking unread messages. At that time I noticed the error message “Waiting for this message. This may take a while. Learn more.” which was sent by one of my friends.

So later I searched for this query but later I found that issue vanished after some sort of time. But in an emergency, you should not wait and thus we are here to help you out to solve this issue.

Many sites will suggest you a temporary solution for this but I will try to give you long-term real solutions for this issue, so keep reading this post till the end to know about it.

First of all, let’s know what this issue is.

What is “Waiting for this message. This may take a while. Learn more.” Issue?
Actually, this error happens because of WhatsApp encrypted messages feature. When a person sends a particular message it is then encrypted and sent to the receiver with a public key. The public key only allows reading the message by the receiver, no other person can read that encrypted message in middle.

When this message is received by the receiver then it is decrypted with help of a private key, and then that particular message is shown to the receiver.

The root cause of this error is an encrypting-decrypting and the private key. Either the Sender or receiver gets out of misconfiguration due to many reasons which result in this error and in the end receiver is not able to see the particular message.

Reasons for this issue

There are multiple reasons for this issue which may be,

1. Reinstall WhatsApp
If the sender or receiver has recently uninstalled his WhatsApp and reinstalled it then his old key is deleted which was usually used to decrypt the messages. In the end, the receiver ends with this issue.

2. Change to new Phone
This case is very similar to the first one. When the user shifts to a new smartphone then the key which was used before doesn’t exist in the new smartphone.

3. Clear Chat
If the user clears his old chats then keys associated with those chats are deleted and when any person related to that chat try to send a new message then this error is shown and to solve these errors keep reading this post.

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