How to avoid - You need official Whatsapp error message

1 min. readlast update: 03.09.2025

For Customers switching to Huawei, How do we avoid an official WhatsApp issue?

If the old customer's phone is a GMS phone :

  1. Don't install WhatsApp on a Huawei device .
  2. change the customer's GMS phone settings to local backup
  3. backup old chat history
  4. Use the phone clone's latest version to transfer WhatsApp from the old GMS to the new Huawei HMS device.
  5. Whatsapp will work normally and no error message will appear.

After this, You can manually search ( Micro G & MicroG ) companion and install using AppGallery.

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