WhatsApp from Meta is a FREE messaging and video calling app. Itās used by over 2B people in more than 180 countries. Itās 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 phoneās 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.
Use WhatsApp on your Wear OS watch to continue conversations, reply to messages, and take calls - all from your wrist. And, leverage tiles and complications to easily access your chats and send voice messages.
*Data charges may apply. Contact your provider for details.
If you have any feedback or questions, please go to WhatsApp > Settings > Help > Contact Us
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Sep 22, 2023
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An excellent app for communication. Makes communication much cheaper than phoning direct. As an improvement, I think having a function in the app, that makes it able to read out aloud messages would be a great. Many times I find myself demotivated when I have to read long messages on the small screen of my mobile phone, or when I want to direct my attention to other things at the same time
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September 14, 2023
generally love this app, my only form of messaging! however, since the last update the emoji and gifs have been ruined. emoji tray is a nightmare and if you search a gif, it just shows you the ones that were there at the beginning when you try and click a search result .. then it freezes and you can't do anything! please fix this!! the emoji/gif layout was perfect before this .. better with the options at the bottom too!
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September 3, 2023
I use this app for a lot of long distance video calls. Unfortunately, the quality of calls is very poor. For the past 10 days or so, this app has frozen within 5 to 10 seconds of making a call: only way to rectify this, is to cut call and dial it again. It will still freeze on subsequent calls and trying to speak to someone on a video which always freezes is completely frustrating. 03.0.23 In an average 50 minute call, WhatsApp is still freezing at least every 3 minutes for 2 to 3 seconds
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What's new
⢠You can now send higher resolution images in chat. To get started, tap the āHDā button when previewing media before sending. ⢠Screen sharing is now supported in video calls. Start a video call and tap on the new āscreen shareā button to get started.
These features will roll out over the coming weeks. Thanks for using WhatsApp!