Published on: 2025-04-21 15:51:20
WhatsApp this week released a major update that adds a new way to create and manage sticker packs without having to leave the app. Read on as we detail exactly what’s new for WhatsApp users. Creating WhatsApp sticker packs just got easier WhatsApp already had an option to create and save custom stickers. However, finding and sending these stickers to someone wasn’t exactly an easy task when you have a lot of them in the app. To solve this, WhatsApp is introducing a new option for creating stic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 03:41:02
The governments of Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan were among several countries accused of being behind the 2019 hacking campaign that targeted more than 1,200 WhatsApp users with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to a lawyer working for the Israeli spyware maker. During a hearing in the lawsuit between WhatsApp and NSO Group last Thursday, NSO Group’s lawyer Joe Akrotirianakis specifically named the three governments as spyware-using customers, according to a transcript of the hearin
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The governments of Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan, among others, were behind the 2019 hacking campaign that targeted more than 1,200 WhatsApp users with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to a lawyer working for the Israeli spyware maker. During a hearing in the lawsuit between WhatsApp and NSO Group last Thursday, NSO Group’s lawyer Joe Akrotirianakis specifically named the three governments as the spyware-using customers, according to a transcript of the hearing obtained by TechCrun
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 03:27:45
The long-awaited antitrust trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicked off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is hearing arguments about whether then-Facebook illegally monopolized the market for “personal social networking services” through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC first brought the case in late 2020. While it was initially thrown out by the judge, he let an amended version move forward after the governme
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 07:50:23
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Whatsapp is working on new music layouts for status updates. These layouts aim to make music sharing more visually appealing. The upcoming layouts would be similar to music options already available on Instagram stories. WhatsApp‘s status feature is a very popular way to share updates with friends, family, and your entire contact list. While certainly useful, it does lag behind in functionality compared to the status/stories feature from Meta’s other
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 18:33:30
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that WhatsApp could get screenshot detection for the status feature. This comes over a decade after Snapchat first introduced screenshot detection for its stories. There’s no sign just yet that WhatsApp will actually tell users when someone takes a screenshot of their status. WhatsApp has offered the status feature for a while now, following in Snapchat‘s footsteps. Now, it looks like the Meta-owned platform
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 15:05:21
About a year before the Federal Trade Commission first opened its antitrust investigation into Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, CEO Mark Zuckerberg internally suggested “the extreme step of spinning Instagram out as a separate company.” In a 2018 email to his executives, Zuckerberg wrote that, “while most companies resist break-ups, the corporate history is that most companies actually perform better after they’ve been split up.” The memo was displayed in court on Tuesday as he
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 23:49:01
Former U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said Monday that Facebook "panicked" when making the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp as smartphone use took off. "It saw companies like Instagram and WhatsApp experiencing astronomical growth, and that's the point at which it resorted to this buy-or-bury scheme where, if it couldn't out-compete a rival, it either bought them out or cut them off its network," Khan said on CNBC's "Squawk Box." Meta , the parent company of Facebook, Inst
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 15:16:07
WhatsApp just rolled out a dozen new features . Most of these are small, but they add up to a fairly substantial software update. Let’s go over some of the more notable additions. Chats now allow for tappable reactions, which is basically like adding a thumbs up to someone else’s reaction. Group chats feature an indicator that lets users know how many people are actually online. This will be right underneath the group name. Solo conversations now offer the ability to create an event, complete w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 12:30:00
On Monday, Meta will face the Federal Trade Commission in a legal fight that could reshape the social media landscape. Over the next two months, the US government will make its case that the company’s 2012 acquisition of Instagram and 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp squashed potential threats to its dominance. Meta, which went by the name of Facebook at the time, will defend itself by arguing that it helped grow those acquisitions into large businesses used by billions of people while facing plent
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 03:30:00
On Monday, Meta will face the Federal Trade Commission in a legal fight that could reshape the social media landscape. Over the next two months, the US government will make its case that the company’s 2012 acquisition of Instagram and 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp squashed potential threats to its dominance. Meta, which went by the name of Facebook at the time, will defend itself by arguing that it helped grow those acquisitions into large businesses used by billions of people while facing plent
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 12:49:41
WhatsApp has rolled out a dozen new features across chats, calls, and channels that make it easier to manage group conversations, alongside other general quality-of-life improvements. One of the more notable additions is a new “Online” indicator for groups, which displays how many participants are currently using the app in real time. This is one of several new features that are similar to capabilities on competing communications platforms like Discord, which highlights the online status of ser
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 23:08:07
WhatsApp has announced a slew of new updates across chats, calls, and channels designed to enhance the messaging and calling experience for users as it continues to compete with popular services like Telegram and Discord. Among the most notable additions is an “Online” indicator that appears at the top of a group chat to show you how many people are currently around to chat. Another new group chat feature will allow you to highlight certain notifications, as you can now use a newly added “Noti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 19:01:00
In context: WhatsApp is one of the most popular communication platforms of all time with around three billion users worldwide. This means that even the slightest security flaw in the app could pose a serious risk to lots of people. Meta recently updated the Microsoft Store version of its WhatsApp app to patch a potentially dangerous security vulnerability discovered by external researchers. According to WhatsApp's security advisory, the flaw could have been exploited to run malicious code on a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 19:25:08
NSO Group’s notorious spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 different countries during a 2019 hacking campaign, according to a new court document. The document was published on Friday as part of the lawsuit that Meta-owned WhatsApp filed against NSO Group in 2019, accusing the surveillance tech maker of exploiting a vulnerability in the chat app to target hundreds of users, including more than 100 human rights activists, journalists, and “other members of civil society.”
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 23:27:52
Meta has been working on a new privacy feature for WhatsApp, which will enable “advanced privacy” for chats. With the feature, users will have the option to further protect sensitive messages. WhatsApp adding new privacy feature for individual and group chats As reported by WABetaInfo, the new privacy feature is currently hidden in the latest beta of WhatsApp for iOS available on TestFlight. Advanced Chat Privacy adds a “new layer of privacy and security to chats,” making it harder for other p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 11:21:58
Meta warned Windows users to update the WhatsApp messaging app to the latest version to patch a vulnerability that can let attackers execute malicious code on their devices. Described as a spoofing issue and tracked as CVE-2025-30401, this security flaw can be exploited by attackers by sending maliciously crafted files with altered file types to potential targets. Meta says the vulnerability impacted all WhatsApp versions and has been fixed with the release of WhatsApp 2.2450.6. "A spoofing i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 05:39:43
If you've noticed a new light blue circle appear in your WhatsApp chats recently, and wondered what it was, Meta has recently expanded its implementation of Meta AI into new markets—and now, it's in yours. While it began rolling out in the US and Canada in 2023, more recently it has started arriving on devices across countries in Europe, including the UK, as well as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. In fact, the artificial intelligence-based chatbot is rolling out across the enti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 02:32:54
WhatsApp MCP Server This is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for WhatsApp. With this you can search you personal Whatsapp messages, search your contacts and send messages to either individuals or groups. It connects to your personal WhatsApp account directly via the Whatsapp web multidevice API (using the whatsmeow library). All your messages are stored locally in a SQLite database and only sent to an LLM (such as Claude) when the agent accesses them through tools (which you control). H
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 19:01:00
In brief: WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new option that allows users to set it as their default calling and messaging app on iOS devices. The update follows Apple's announcement last year with iOS 18.2, which introduced the ability to change the default SMS and phone apps. The feature is available in the latest WhatsApp update (version 25.8.74), allowing users to set the app as their primary hub for calls and messages on iPhone. The new default app setting recently appeared for some beta te
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 11:22:12
WhatsApp launched a new feature on Friday, where users can include brief music clips in their Status updates, reminiscent of the Myspace era. Status resembles Instagram Stories and allows users to share photos, videos, and text that disappear after 24 hours. When creating a new Status, users can tap on a music note icon to choose from millions of available songs. They can post music clips of up to 15 seconds for photos and up to 60 seconds for videos. The launch of music clips follows parent c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 15:00:00
WhatsApp is reviving some old school internet nostalgia with a new feature that allows users to add temporary music clips to their profile updates. Snippets from popular songs can now be featured in WhatsApp statuses, with availability rolling out globally and expanding “over the coming weeks,” according to parent company Meta. WhatsApp’s status feature is located in the updates tab, and can be used to share text, photo, and video messages that disappear after 24 hours, similar to the Stories f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 15:57:55
With iOS 18.2, Apple has introduced a new option that lets iPhone users set third-party apps as the default for calls and messages. Now WhatsApp has finally released an update to support this API, which means that users can choose WhatsApp to be the iPhone’s default app for calls and texts. Set WhatsApp as default calling/messaging app As first noticed by WABetaInfo, the latest version of WhatsApp for iOS enables support for the option to choose default apps. When you choose a new app as your
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 22:02:20
WhatsApp has patched a zero-click, zero-day vulnerability used to install Paragon's Graphite spyware following reports from security researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab. The company addressed the attack vector late last year "without the need for a client-side fix" and decided not to assign a CVE-ID after "reviewing the CVE guidelines published by MITRE, and [its] own internal policies." "WhatsApp has disrupted a spyware campaign by Paragon that targeted a number of users in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 18:00:00
Chat platform WhatsApp said today that it will limit the number of broadcast messages individual users and businesses can send to curb spam on the app. In the coming weeks, the company will start testing limits on individual broadcast messages. Under these limits, WhatsApp will put a monthly limit on the number of broadcasts. While there will be moving limits during the test, one example Meta gave was allowing 30 messages per month. Meta said that if individual users want to send more messages
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 10:45:16
WhatsApp never waits long between updates and this time it's reportedly changing how replies look. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is currently working on a feature that would put all replies to the same message in one thread. A look at it appeared in an Android update available through the Google Play Beta Program. Right now, WhatsApp allows users to reply directly to a message and shows the original on top of the new message. However, users have to click through each response to see any ear
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 23:23:33
WhatsApp is working on a feature that will group replies to specific messages into a thread, making it easier to keep track of conversations. Instead of scrolling through chats to see scattered individual replies, the feature will create a dedicated view showing every quoted message connecting back to the original message that started the thread, helping users to find specific responses and easily navigate long and messy conversations. The threads feature, spotted in WhatsApp’s Android beta 2.2
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 13:00:20
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR WhatsApp is testing a new feature that lets users turn off their camera before accepting video calls. Right now, your front camera turns on automatically when you receive a video call, and you can only turn it off after answering. The feature was discovered in WhatsApp’s Android beta version 2.25.7.3. WhatsApp, the globally popular messaging app, is testing a new feature aimed at enhancing user privacy during video calls. For those who’ve ever felt t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 01:00:21
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR WhatsApp is working on emoji reactions and a raise hand feature for video calls. The new features appear in beta version 2.25.5.21. You can access these features by tapping on the horizontal three dots. While it’s not exactly the most important feature to have access to, it’s nice to have the option to react to what’s going on during a video call. WhatsApp has long been missing this functionality, but it looks like it could soon catch up to other ser
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 08:21:37
WhatsApp says it has resolved technical problem "We know some people briefly had trouble sending messages on WhatsApp," a spokesperson told the BBC. "We've fixed the issue." WhatsApp said the issues, largely impacting users' ability to send messages, had now been resolved. Downdetector, a site which monitors platform outages, received more than 50,000 reports from users shortly after 15:30 GMT, which began to decline soon after. Messaging service WhatsApp went down briefly on Friday afternoo
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