OpenClaw WhatsApp
WhatsApp session recovery
Use this page when WhatsApp looked connected before, but the session is drifting, expired, or behaving inconsistently across chats.
Core ideaMany WhatsApp failures are linked-session problems, not classic token problems.
Recovery order
Recover the session only when the session layer is really broken
- decide whether the failure is really session-related or actually chat-policy-related
- confirm whether the linked session is still valid
- separate direct-chat behavior from group behavior
- only rebuild the WhatsApp session when the session layer is truly the broken one
- after reconnecting, retest the exact chat path that failed before
Common failure
The usual false diagnosis
A lot of “WhatsApp connected but weird” reports are really stale or broken linked-session states, especially when earlier behavior worked and then gradually got less reliable.