r/viber

It's driving me nuts! Enough with forcing Ai into everything for the love of God. I don't want to see TRANSLATE under every single message are you insane??!? Why would I need it even? As if I chat with people who's language I don't speak on a daily basis, what planet are you on? And I don't need GPT on the app it's already everywhere! My socks have gpt, just stop already.

Viber.

What is wrong with you? Why are you trying so hard to kill the app?

Why do you HATE your customers so much?

Literally force feeding the customers your AI slop.

And now my number is blocked? I am a blocked user on the app, while PAYING you monthly for international calling.

Can I get a refund and take my business elsewhere?

I have been using Viber for international calling for 2 years, I was just charged a few days ago, and now yesterday I get blocked for what? Being accused of a spammer? I legit only call one number, which is my grandma who is elderly and 90+.

Viber. The people running the company, you are just soulless and money hungry. You do not make an app for the people or the customers. You see your customers as nothing more than money pigs, trying to wring them of everything they have.

The App is now just AD RIDDEN, AI SLOP, Constant bombardment from SPAM and SCAMMERS, that I can not even block. And then as a paying member, I am the one who is accused of being a spammer?

Seriously...?

You can have my one star review on the app.

To all the customers, and future customers out there, take your money elsewhere. Let this app DIE. They are asking for their own death with this ENSHITTIFICATION.

There is no customer support. The customer support is just an AI bot that does nothing. You might as well be talking to a wall.

When you send an email to customer support, they do not promptly answer.

This is basically a "Fuck You" to the customers at that point.

To prospective users of Viber. Save yourself the hassle. This app is TRASH. Take your business and money elsewhere. The people who run this company DO NOT deserve your money.

Viber please give us option to disable translate button under every message

Who approve this? It's distracting when you look at messages

Hi everyone,

I'm having a strange issue with Viber. Polls are being created in my group chat but I cannot see them at all, while every other member of the group can see and vote on them.

Details:

- App is on the latest version

- I was already a member of the group before the polls were created

- All other members (Android and iOS) can see the polls fine

- I can see all regular messages and media in the group — only polls are invisible to me

- Located in the US (AT&T)

- Already tried restarting the app

Has anyone experienced this before or know what might be causing it? I've already submitted a support ticket to Viber but looking for any quick fixes in the meantime.

Thanks!

Over the last 17 fucking days, I've been banned from viber over a false alarm. Apparently talking with people that you don't have in your contacts but have their numbers is punishable. Great job moderation. While my unbanning process should be resolved over 24 or more hours it's been 17 DAYS, trying EVERYTHING to get unbanned. Contacted support via email 5 times, last one like 5 days ago. Made reviews, contacted the Support Bot and they are doing absolutely NOTHING. Since it's my first time being banned I need some help, tips or links that can help me

Please and thank you

Hello,

my Viber display languague is ENG and my native languague is Croatian. This is my choice!

How to delete annoying TRANSLATE button on every message? How to DISABLE ALL AI functions? I dont want any of this!

I'm trying to understand what happened because this has been causing me a lot of anxiety.

Earlier this month, a friend told me that my Viber profile picture and display name had suddenly changed. When I opened Viber, I had to log in again from scratch. After getting back into my account, I saw that my profile picture had been changed to a photo of a blonde woman and my display name had been changed to a female name. I removed the picture and restored my name.

While checking everything, I noticed something strange. In my blocked contacts there was a blocked account with the exact same female name that had been set on my profile.

When I went to enable Viber's 2-step verification PIN, I noticed a message in the official Viber notifications chat from two days earlier that said:

**New Viber activity

You will receive an SMS with an activation code. If you did not request an SMS, you can ignore it and report it.

Remember, NEVER share your activation code with others!**

The timestamp on that notification was 8:06 AM.

Then I remembered that around that same time, two days earlier, I had received a random phone call from an unknown number early in the morning. At the time I assumed it might have been one of Viber's automated authorization calls, but I never answered it. I checked my call history, and the timestamp matched the Viber notification time exactly.

This is what I don't understand:

I never answered the authorization call.

I never received an SMS verification code.

I never shared any code with anyone.

Yet someone was still able to access my Viber account and change my profile.

How is that even possible? Is there some known method of bypassing Viber's verification process?

What made things even stranger was that about 3 minutes after I recovered my account, I received an explicit photo from an unknown phone number on Viber. Since then, I've also started receiving Viber notifications and SMS messages containing verification codes for random apps that I never tried to register for.

Then, last night, my mother told me she couldn't access her Viber account. When I helped her log in, I found the exact same situation:

Her profile picture had been changed.

Her display name had been changed.

There was a blocked contact with the same name as the one that had been assigned to her profile.

There was a "New Viber activity" notification that matched an unknown phone call at the same time.

She also never answered the call and never entered or shared any verification code.

The fact that this happened to both of us makes me think this isn't just an isolated incident.

Has anyone else experienced something similar recently? Does anyone know how an attacker could gain access to a Viber account without the victim answering the verification call or receiving/entering an SMS code?

I'd also appreciate any advice on what else I should check to make sure our accounts and phone numbers are secure.

Thank you for reading through this long post

P.S. I already contacted Viber support and they did nothing

Hello,

i recently removed the app from my phone and immediately reinstalled it at which point i was prompted if i want to restore via the backup i have in google drive (roughly 14gb size). The download indeed takes a while to complete but after nothing of significance is restored, a handful of group chats reappear - only in name, the actual chat history is gone - likewise all other chats have no history. I've tried restoring several times, with data, with wifi, i even found an old post recommedning i install an older version of viber and try restoring like that but no success.

The restore completes without any error message and im stumped, i've tried contacting official support and am still waiting on their response, meanwhile does anyone have any experience with anything similar and how/if you managed to solve it?

Thanks, greatly appreciated

i cant activate my account and its frustrating because i need it for school. How can i fix this SMS error?