WhatsApp for iPhone was updated on the App Store today with several new features, including sticker search and custom wallpapers per-chat with separate wallpapers in Dark Mode.
With the Reminders app on the iPhone, iPad and Mac, you can get a notification when chatting with someone in the Messages app, ensuring you don't forget about an important reminder involving that person, like asking them to return a book you loaned them a while ago.
WhatsApp is adding the popular ephemeral messaging feature to its mobile app for iPhone and Android. With the feature enabled, new messages sent to a chat automatically disappear after seven days. This is an optional feature: you can continue sending and receiving WhatsApp messages like before, without even turning on the option to use disappearing messages.
Apple lets you turn your HomePod speaker into an intercom, allowing family members to send audio messages from one Apple speaker or device to another in your household. Family members receive Intercom notifications and can send Intercom messages from their devices.
The Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has introduced new, simpler ways to manage storage space taken up by photos, videos, voice messages and other attachments.
In January 2019, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg promised his company would merge chats from its mobile Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger apps into a unified messaging experience. Today, the social networking behemoth announced a new milestone toward that goal as the Messenger and Instagram chats have now been officially merged into one.
The Messages app in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 brings more than a dozen new features and enhancements, allowing you to stay connected to your favorite conversations, keep track of group chats, bring specific items to someone's attention with Slack-like mentions and much more. Here is everything new and improved in Messages on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp for iPhone is testing new tools for storage usage along with a feature that will allow you to clear all messages except starred in one fell swoop.
Secure messaging app Telegram has introduced video calling with end-to-end encryption that prevents eavesdropping, increasing pressure on Zoom, Apple's FaceTime and similar services.
The first public phase of Facebook's merging of Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp chats into a single, iMessage-like monolithic messaging service has kicked off now.
If anything, the US elections and the coronavirus crisis have reminded us yet again how rapidly misinformation can spread through social media and messaging platforms. To help with that, you now have the ability to fact-check forwarded WhatsApp messages, and we show you how.
WhatsApp is allegedly testing using the same user account on up to four different devices at the same time, based on hints discovered in WhatsApp beta for Android by WABetaInfo.