I start a chat on WhatsApp, and ManyChat shows a notification and sounds for a new chat, but the conversation doesn't appear.

I start a chat on WhatsApp, and ManyChat shows a notification and sounds for a new chat, but the conversation doesn't appear.
Also check your setting in Settings > Live Chat Behaviour. If you have it set like this:
Then you need to explicitly open the conversation with an Action step to set the conversation as Open.
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