Tag: WhatsApp
Unchain Yourself from Read Receipts and Reclaim Your Freedom
Read receipts are making it increasingly difficult to ignore someone when you hop back online. Although read receipts were made to enhance communication between...
[Update: Issue Has Been Resolved] Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Are Experiencing Outage: Here’s What We Know So Far
Update below: Facebook's top three giant platforms are down if you're wondering why you can't share memes or texts with your friends on WhatsApp,...
WhatsApp Joins Status to Share New Features and Updates
Facebook-owned chat app WhatsApp has been in a hot seat for the last couple of weeks.
The application chose to renew its privacy policies,...
WhatsApp Delays Service Terms After Outrage
WhatsApp has today announced that they will give more time for their recent service terms update that caused an uproar on social media.
"We’re now...
WhatsApp in 2021: All the Features You Should Be Taking Advantage Of
WhatsApp is a very popular app owned by Facebook, with over 2 billion daily active users and roughly over 100 billion messages being delivered...
WhatsApp Disappearing Messages: Everything You Need to Know
WhatsApp is finally catching up to its rivals with new features it has been releasing this year.
Chat apps like Telegram, Wickr, Signal, Snapchat, Confide...
What is WhatsApp Pay and How It Works
Last week, Whatsapp Pay, or payments made headlines, and for good reason. The money product has been under development by Facebook (that owns WhatsApp)...
WhatsApp Will Offer In-App Purchases and Cloud Hosting to Boost Revenue
Facebook is now serious on finding ways to make money off WhatsApp through in-app purchases and the cloud.
Facebook has revealed to day in a...
WhatsApp Groups are Being Created to Crash Official Android and iOS Apps
WhatsApp is reported to result into a bootloop when you click certain elements in your chats.
According to WABetaInfo, people are receiving messages that look...
WhatsApp Working on Syncing Chat History Across Different Platforms
WhatsApp chat history implementation has always annoyed me since the app is designed for use on one device. It seems WhatsApp is finally working...
WhatsApp Tests New Interface for Using Same Number on Different Phones
WhatsApp is testing a new user interface for its upcoming feature - letting people use the same account on different phones.
WhatsApp is yet to...
WhatsApp Rolls Out 8 Participant Limit on Video Calls, Animated Stickers and More
WhatsApp has today rolled out a slew of new features today which will be rolled out over the next few weeks to everyone.
First is...
WhatsApp Payments Suspended in Brazil by the Country’s Central Bank
Early this month, Facebook announced the introduction of WhatsApp payments and Brazil was the first country this feature would be rolling out in.
This move...
WhatsApp Launches Peer to Peer Payments in Brazil
Facebook has announced that it has rolled out digital payments to WhatsApp users in Brazil, which will start rolling out today.
This is a very...
Facebook to Acquire Giphy for $400m, Raises Privacy Concerns
Our online lives are about to get worse as Facebook is buying our popular source for gifs - Giphy.
I guess the company has gotten...
WhatsApp’s Native Picture-In-Picture Player Now Supports Netflix
If you like sharing what your friends, family members, acquaintances or even strangers should be watching on Netflix on WhatsApp - then this update...
Facebook Set To Integrate Messenger Rooms With WhatsApp
Facebook recently rolled out Messenger Rooms to counter Zoom which was quickly gaining popularity and now that feature is set to be integrated with...
Dark Mode for Facebook iOS App Imminent
Dark mode is everywhere on Facebook's family of apps that includes Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger except the Facebook app.
Even the website now has a dark mode...
WhatsApp Doubles Participant Limit For Group Calls
WhatsApp has boosted the number of participants you can have on a single group call in the latest beta update.
According to WABETAInfo, this feature is available...
WhatsApp Message Forwarding Restriction Is Now Live
With social media platforms trying to fight misinformation especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook-owned messaging platform, WhatsApp took the effort to limit forwarding messages...
WhatsApp Limits Forwarding Those Viral Messages Even Further
WhatsApp is used by billions of people every month and one feature people love using is the forwarding feature. People love forwarding messages (especially viral) that...
WhatsApp to Soon Add Support For Multiple Devices Under One Account
WhatsApp is set to soon join the likes of rival messaging apps like Telegram with one feature we've been highly requesting for years on...
Facebook Partners with Kenya Government Share Coronavirus Facts via WhatsApp
Facebook today has announced that they are partnering with the Kenyan government to keep Kenyans informed about the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
The company in collaboration...
Scientist Determines that WhatsApp Has the Most Accurate Saturn Emoji
Emojis have become ubiquitous in our daily lives. New emojis are added yearly by the Unicode consortium and usually, newer software is updated first...
Dark Mode Finally Comes to WhatsApp
After years of waiting and anticipation, Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has officially joined the dark mode bandwagon. We've been patient enough since they began...
Whatsapp Backups on Google Drive Are Not Encrypted so a Fix Is Being Tested
WhatsApp introduced Google Drive backup for your chats and media files almost 5 years ago which was a godsend. As you know, WhatsApp is...
Enable Dark Mode in WhatsApp With This Tip
2019 was the year of dark mode thanks to Android 10, iOS 13 and other device-specific UI's such as Huawei's EMUI 10, vivo's Funtouch OS,...
Why Your Private WhatsApp Chat Groups Aren’t That Private
WhatsApp has had its own security issues such as the alleged hack of Jeff Bezos phone by Sudi Arabia and the vulnerability that allowed...
WhatsApp For iOS Finally Gets Dark Mode on Beta App
Dark mode has been a selling point for operating systems and apps alike and for a good reason. We use these devices at night...
WhatsApp Defends its End to End Encryption as it Passes 2 Billion User Mark
WhatsApp, the popular social network revealed that they have crossed the 2 billion user mark.
The messaging service is now only second to Facebook itself...
Dark Mode on WhatsApp Rolls out for Android Users
WhatsApp's Dark Mode has been rumoured for months. This is a messaging app with over 1.5 billion users and the hint of it having...
WhatsApp is Now the 10th App to Cross the 5 Billion Installs Milestone
A few apps have hit a billion installs across the app stores. Even fewer is the exclusive 5 billion club which only a handful...
Facebook Has Apparently Shelved its Plans to Show Ads in WhatsApp
Facebook has made strides to monetize its assets in a bid to recoup its investments. WhatsApp by far was their biggest expenditure where they...
WhatsApp Needs to Fix This Annoying Thing in This Decade
WhatsApp is a very popular messaging platform. It has over 1.5 billion monthly active users and it is estimated that 12 million Kenyans actively...
3 Exciting Features Coming to WhatsApp in 2020
WhatsApp is having a few features up its sleeve slated to go live next year. The popular messaging app which Facebook bought for $19.3...