WhatsApp for iOS promises Picture in Picture video calls for 2023
Today, in a blog post, WhatsApp highlighted how it’s improving calling features on the app. While it brought some new functions in 2022, the company …
WhatsApp’s View Once privacy feature is expanding to texts
Last year, WhatsApp released a new privacy feature called “View Once” that allowed users to send photos and videos that would auto-delete after the recipient …
How to text yourself on WhatsApp, and why you should
WhatsApp has a new feature that’s already available on other chat apps: the ability to text yourself. That might sound like a strange feature in …
WhatsApp Communities now available alongside supergroups and 32 person video calling
Today, WhatsApp announced it’s finally making available the Communities feature. The company calls this “a major update to how people will be able to connect …
WhatsApp to add profile photos within group chats
After releasing several new features this year, WhatsApp plans at least one more function to improve the user’s experience. The app will soon bring profile …
WhatsApp is down in a major outage
WhatsApp is one of the most popular chat apps, with about 2 billion users relying on it to exchange messages with their friends and family …
iPhone hackers can expose WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema users’ location
Security researchers discovered that iPhone hackers could expose WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema users’ locations with an accuracy of 80%, depending on the attack’s success. Here’s …
Meta attacks Apple’s iMessage in new WhatsApp ad campaign
The Apple vs. Meta rivalry heated up this week as the company behind Facebook launched a new ad campaign targeting Apple’s iMessage. On Monday, CEO …
WhatsApp will soon let you block screenshots of ‘View Once’ messages
Last year, WhatsApp added disappearing photos and videos to chats. Copying a trend from Snapchat – and other Meta-owned apps –, the application would only …
WhatsApp will finally let you silently leave a group chat
With over 2 billion users, WhatsApp is the most popular mobile messaging app in the world. One of the reasons WhatsApp has stayed so popular …
WhatsApp finally lets everyone transfer full chat history from Android to iPhone
WhatsApp has finally launched the chat migration tool that allows all Android users to transfer their chat history to iPhone. The move follows a limited …
WhatsApp now lets you use any emoji as a reaction
Back in May, WhatsApp began rolling out a series of updates. One of those updates was the ability to react to messages with emoji. At …
WhatsApp will soon let you hide your online status
The more control that social media platforms give us over our accounts, the better. For as much data as we hand over when we create …
How to transfer your WhatsApp chat history from Android to iPhone
Last year, WhatsApp announced a new feature allowing users to transfer chat history when switching from iPhone to Android. Initially, the feature was only available …
WhatsApp won’t work on these iPhone models starting in October
WhatsApp is the world’s most popular chat platform, having hit 2 billion users more than two years ago. The app offers rich instant messaging features …
WhatsApp adds emoji reactions, big files, and bigger groups
WhatsApp is the most popular mobile messaging platform on the planet, but it lacks some features that users have been requesting for years. This week, …
WhatsApp starts testing option to hide Last Seen status
Your WhatsApp Last Seen status allows your contact list to see the last time that you open the app. It’s useful for checking when your …
WhatsApp announces 5 major new features rolling out this year
WhatsApp is by far the most popular mobile messaging platform on the planet, with more than two billion users worldwide. But despite its popularity, WhatsApp …
WhatsApp chat transfers from Android to iPhone coming soon
WhatsApp chat transfer is one of many annoying things you have to worry about when upgrading your smartphone. It’s not a real issue if you’re …
WhatsApp now supports cryptocurrency payments in the US
Facebook (now Meta) wanted to launch a cryptocurrency payment service of its own a few years ago. The idea was that people would use it …
FBI document shows how easy it is to access your encrypted chat data
Your encrypted messaging history might not be as safe as you thought. With every big tech company spouting on and on about privacy, it might …
WhatsApp won’t support any of these phones after November 1st, 2021
WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world. But even with its wide reach, the app can’t support all our devices forever. The …
Big WhatsApp update makes it easy to switch from iPhone to Android
Facebook fixed one of the worst things about the WhatsApp app a couple of months ago when it announced that it’ll finally support chat history …
WhatsApp encrypted backups rolling out to iPhone and Android
Facebook announced a month ago that WhatsApp’s rumored end-to-end encrypted backup feature would roll out to all iPhone and Android. The company explained how users …
WhatsApp launches encrypted backups on iPhone and Android
WhatsApp is one of the chat apps available on iPhone and Android that offers end-to-end encryption. That means that all instant messages, voice calls, and …
WhatsApp is about to introduce the privacy setting you’ve been asking for
WhatsApp has been at the center of a massive privacy scandal earlier this year, as Facebook attempted to force users to agree to new terms …
You can now transfer your WhatsApp chat history from iPhone to Android
Earlier this week, WhatsApp finally made it possible to transfer chat history between iOS and Android devices. The developers say that this has been one …
Facebook will finally add the WhatsApp privacy policy option we all want
Facebook’s big WhatsApp privacy policy controversy from the first half of 2021 was one of the biggest of the year. Facebook told WhatsApp users in …
WhatsApp supports iPhone-to-Android chat transfers – with a few twists
WhatsApp is the world’s largest messaging app on mobile devices. It’s all thanks to a few great features that make WhatsApp almost a must-have app. …
Your WhatsApp logout error isn’t a hack – here’s what happened
Some bad things can happen to your online accounts, WhatsApp included, and it’s very annoying to have to deal with the fallout of a hack. …
