No one outside of your chats, not even WhatsApp, can read or listen to them. Your personal messages and calls to friends and family are end-to-end encrypted. WhatsApp works across mobile and desktop even on slow connections, with no subscription fees*. It’s simple, reliable, and private, so you can easily keep in touch with your friends and family.

It’s used by over 2B people in more than 180 countries. This could include photos or videos, similar to how Snapchat works, where you would view it once and not see it again, so this could be very useful for someone who wants to send over confidential information.Ĭathcart also confirmed that multi-device support is coming to the beta version of WhatsApp within the next two months, so it’s not a far cry to see iPad support appear by the end of August 2021.WhatsApp from Meta is a FREE messaging and video calling app. While they can already disappear after a certain amount of time, there’s also the upcoming ability to view a message once, and then it will disappear. It looks as though the team are focusing on expanding the disappearing messages first. Cathcart later confirms that up to four of your devices will be able to use the same WhatsApp account at the same time, so it may be that your account won’t need your phone number to access the same chats.

It seems as though multi-device support had to work in order for an iPad app to be viable, which is now a possibility. “We’d love to support WhatsApp on the iPad! Getting multi-device right will make it possible for us to build things like that.” In the interview, Will Cathcart confirmed that a native app was on its way, saying:

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