You are not alone. The combination of (including macOS 13 Ventura, 14 Sonoma, and 15 Sequoia) and WhatsApp’s evolving infrastructure occasionally produces unique numeric errors. While “10157” is not a standard public error code from Meta (the parent company of WhatsApp), user logs and community reports suggest it is a connection timeout or WebSocket handshake failure specific to older or misconfigured installations of the WhatsApp desktop wrapper on macOS.

Tap Link a Device and point your phone’s camera at the QR code on your Mac screen.