News Facebook Has over 3 Billion Monthly Active Users Despite facing a decline in popularity among younger users, Facebook continues to show growth in daily active users, with 2.064 billion people engaging with the platform daily, up from 2.037 billion in the previous quarter.
News WhatsApp Is Working on Introducing Usernames WABetaInfo has spotted the new feature in WhatsApp's latest beta version, 2.23.11.15, for Android. As a rule, new WhatsApp features first appear in the Android app, and then are rolled out to the iOS app.
News WhatsApp Now Lets Its Users Edit Messages To fix a typo or edit the already sent text in the message, all you need to do now is long-press on a sent message you want to change and choose "Edit" from the menu. The person who received the message will see that it has been edited.
News WhatsApp Now Lets You Use the Same Account on Multiple Phones Each phone connects to WhatsApp independently, making sure that all calls, personal messages, media files, and other data are synced across devices and end-to-end encrypted.
News WhatsApp Is Working on a Newsletter Feature The references to the feature have been spotted in beta version 2.23.5.3 of the app for Android devices. It should be noted that the feature is currently in the early stages of development and is slated to ship in the app's future update.
News WhatsApp Now Lets You Send Messages to Yourself To see if you have the new feature, start a new chat, and see if your contact is showing up at the top of your contacts list. Once you click on that, you'll be able to save some notes, files, links, reminders, or anything else you need to remember.
News WhatsApp Is Rolling Out Its New Communities Feature Globally To start using this feature, you need to open the new Communities tab, which can be found at the top of your chats on Android or at the bottom on iOS. Here you can both create a new Community and add existing groups to a new Community.
News WhatsApp Introduced a Premium Subscription Plan for Business Users According to WABetaInfo, the messaging platform has started testing the subscription plan for certain business users with the latest beta update on iOS and Android via TestFlight and the Play Store.
News WhatsApp Lets People Mute Individual Users During Group Calls Other popular video conferencing platforms like Zoom or Microsoft Teams offer similar functionality where hosts can mute all or specific participants, but WhatsApp now allows any participant of the group call to mute whoever they want.
News WhatsApp Might Soon Add Message Reactions The feature will work similarly to the one available on Telegram. After tapping or long pressing on the message, WhatsApp users will see a row of emoji right above it. At the moment, the list of reactions includes six emoji.
News WhatsApp Is Testing Crypto Payments Through Novi Wallet WhatsApp users will be able to send and receive cryptocurrency instantly thanks to an integration with the Novi digital wallet. It is noted that sending and receiving money via WhatsApp will be as easy as sending messages.
News Uber Will Let Indian Users Book a Ride via WhatsApp Uber introduced this option to make ordering a taxi as easy as possible for its Indian customers. Since WhatsApp is a convenient platform for them, the company decided to use this messaging app.
News Meta Delays Facebook and Instagram's End-To-End Encryption The company decided to postpone the encryption of messages after the child safety campaigners expressed concerns that E2EE would help cybercriminals and child abuse go unnoticed on the social media platforms.
News WhatsApp Now Lets You Transfer Chats From iOS to Android The platform will soon roll out a handy feature that will be appreciated by users who wish to switch between iOS and Android. This means that you will be able to quickly transfer the complete chat history from an iPhone to an Android smartphone.
News WhatsApp Will Limit the Functionality of Some Users on May 15 WhatsApp reminded users that new rules for using the messenger will come into force on May 15, as well as told users what will happen to the accounts of those who do not accept the changes.
News WhatsApp's New Privacy Policy Might Be Illegal WhatsApp's new privacy policy may be illegal, but representatives of WhatsApp still assure its users that the update will not affect the users' correspondence in any way, and it will still be encrypted.
News Telegram Update Allows to Import Chat History From WhatsApp Telegram introduced the ability to import chat history from other apps, including WhatsApp, Line, and KakaoTalk.
BigTech WhatsApp Users Began to Download Alternative Messengers Massively WhatsApp users started to download alternative messengers due to the new WhatsApp privacy policy.
News New Year's Eve Activity Breaks Facebook Services Records On New Year's Eve, all Facebook services broke traffic records. The WhatsApp and Messenger experienced a record load, and the Instagram Live and Facebook Live functions were torn apart from the traffic.