WhatsApp Messenger

4.2
178M reviews
5B+
Downloads
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

WhatsApp from Meta is a FREE messaging and video calling app. It’s used by over 2B people in more than 180 countries. It’s simple, reliable, and private, so you can easily keep in touch with your friends and family. WhatsApp works across mobile and desktop even on slow connections, with no subscription fees*.

Private messaging across the world

Your personal messages and calls to friends and family are end-to-end encrypted. No one outside of your chats, not even WhatsApp, can read or listen to them.

Simple and secure connections, right away

All you need is your phone number, no user names or logins. You can quickly view your contacts who are on WhatsApp and start messaging.

High quality voice and video calls

Make secure video and voice calls with up to 8 people for free*. Your calls work across mobile devices using your phone’s Internet service, even on slow connections.

Group chats to keep you in contact

Stay in touch with your friends and family. End-to-end encrypted group chats let you share messages, photos, videos and documents across mobile and desktop.

Stay connected in real time

Share your location with only those in your individual or group chat, and stop sharing at any time. Or record a voice message to connect quickly.

Share daily moments through Status

Status allows you to share text, photos, video and GIF updates that disappear after 24 hours. You can choose to share status posts with all your contacts or just selected ones.


*Data charges may apply. Contact your provider for details.

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If you have any feedback or questions, please go to WhatsApp > Settings > Help > Contact Us
Updated on
Jun 5, 2023

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 5 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.2
174M reviews
João Martins
May 13, 2023
Passing from one phone to another is stupidly antiquated and inpractical. It requires you to reinstall the app or it will not recognize your Drive back-ups, even though they are the only ones in the back-up folder... And if by a strike of bad luck one happens to click back-up in the new phone before restoring the previous file, the latter will be unrecoverably overwritten by the new one...
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Vicky Viajera
May 25, 2023
Instead of improving and adding useful functions it takes them away. Now you can't press on the name or number of a person in a group and message them directly... it now shows you their picture, so you have to look them up in the long list of group members if you want to contact that person in private. Then, how come they didn't yet add the function of scheduling messages?!? It's so useful for busy people and for those times when you remember too early or too late in the day to message someone.
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Akhilesh Kumar
June 6, 2023
It was good a few months back but now everytime during a video call my video is paused without any reason and the only way it can be fixed is for you to call again. There is also a new irritating feature we cannot send photos while on a video call. We cannot check other messages while on a video call or our video will be paused. I don't understand are you trying to increase inconvenience for the user with each update.
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What's new



• Added support for WhatsApp on Wear OS smartwatches
• You can now save important messages for later when using Disappearing Messages. Long press on a message and choose “Keep” to get started.
• Added new text overlay tools for Status including updated fonts and background colors
• GIFs will now play automatically without having to tap them.