After several years, WhatsApp finally solved a failure in managing the RAM memory that the app had on iOS devices.
WhatsApp is the most widely used instant messaging application in the world, with over 2 billion active users every day, and therefore it is the main target of cybercriminals and it is always in the news when a type of failure is reported.
This is why WhatsApp engineers should always be on the lookout for any kind of vulnerabilities or outages that exist in the app, something that can change depending on the operating system that is running, mainly Android or iOS.
Three months ago, Wabetainfo reported a major bug regarding critical memory leaks in WhatsApp for iOS, which was reproduced every time the contact picker was opened. Oddly enough, he points out that he informed WhatsApp on January 22, and it is now, with the release of update 2.21.70, that the memory failure has been resolved, three months later.
So that you understand the severity of this failure which compromised the performance of our iPhone, WhatsApp did not release the resources in a specific case, in this case, the RAM, when we stopped using the application.
When an app is running, it temporarily borrows our device’s RAM while it is in use, only to release it shortly after when it is no longer in use. Well, with this WhatsApp bug on iOS, the app didn’t free up the RAM once it stopped being used, slowing the device down later. But it wasn’t always like that.
As mentioned, this failure was reproduced in WhatsApp for iOS whenever the user opened the contact picker while using WhatsApp, and only in this case, the previously borrowed memory was not freed, which caused our device to slow down.
All you need to do is update WhatsApp on iOS to the latest version, which has already fixed this memory management failure.
