 <p>In the html code, replace:</p> <pre><code>&lt;a href="whatsapp://send?text=Hello"&gt; </code></pre> <p>with:</p> <pre><code>&lt;a href="intent://send?text=Hello#Intent;scheme=whatsapp;package=com.whatsapp;end"&gt; </code></pre> <p>See Chrome's docs about this here: <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/intents#example" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/intents#example</a></p>