Quote from: klondike on November 03, 2025, 11:58:01 PMIf it's an android phone you should really only be using playstore.

Apk is the type name of android executables and you normally have to fiddle with permissions to allow an app to be installed from anywhere other than the playstore. There's a reason for that.

It could be that it isn't WhatsApp suggesting you install from elsewhere but a scammer. Are there any contacts showing that aren't friends and family or groups you've joined?

This sounds sus to me

Oh dear,  I'm a bit worried now.      Yes, it is Android  (Samsung).   
Do others ever update their WhatsApp?
I will go and have another look at the phone and let you know later.


Yesterday at 12:05:55 PM

Quote from: Dextrous63 on Yesterday at 05:42:32 AMHmm.  That sounds dodgy to me.

I've not received any such message on my iPhone for WhatsApp or indeed any app suggesting I use a different App Store to update or install anything.

Just checked....

Thanks Dex,  but mine isn't an iphone.   Should that make a difference?


Yesterday at 12:08:39 PM

Quote from: Ashy on Yesterday at 09:38:29 AMSomething very similar poopped up on my Whatsit feed too. I may be wrong but I think this is a protected mode which does not allow copying or forwarding of messages and attachments, so I would not use this personally. If you use it to transmit document etc then you can only read them on the handset.

Whatsit?   

Sorry Ashy,  but I don't know anything about 'protected modes' either. 
I am pretty useless with technology.

Quote from: Ruthio on Yesterday at 11:11:58 AMSam booked up his Christmas dinner
He'd backed a horse a shure fire winner
He'd use his winners to pay the bill
But then he got ill 🤒

^  ^  Gawd,  that's a rotten one to try and finish  ^  ^  

A late good morning to you.
It's been  beautiful sunshine this morning,  and now I want to do some jobs outside, its all black clouds.  Bugger. 

I wonder how Granny's getting on with her knee today . .    I hope all's well.

This is a strange cold I picked up about 10 days ago.  It is very intense and you think you're in for it,  then the next day its nearly gone,  then the following day it starts all over  again . .  and so on.    
Never had anything like this before.  Weird.
Still drinking my hot honey & lemon,  and gargling with warm salt water for my throat, so hope its soon gone altogether. 

Quote from: klondike on Yesterday at 10:51:05 AMNot quite. Anywhere with an authoritarian government might lock you up. Such as North Korea, Russia, China and the like

Good comparison!

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Sam booked up his Christmas dinner
He'd backed a horse a shure fire winner
He'd use his winners to pay the bill

Not quite. Anywhere with an authoritarian government might lock you up. Such as North Korea, Russia, China and the like

Quote from: klondike on November 03, 2025, 02:03:51 PMYou can't land up in jail for something posted on social media in the US.

Only in broken Britain

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