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.
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
Terms of Service: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/terms-of-service
Learn more about messaging privately: https://www.whatsapp.com/privacy
Learn more about WhatsApp safety: https://www.whatsapp.com/security
Updated on
7 Jan 2025
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selecting photos from the app is a horrible experience, when you selected all the photo and wanted to go back up to check them, the window gets brought down when you hit the top without any buffer or warning. You always end up accidentally bringing down and therefore closing the selection screen and had to restart again, extremely frustrating experience.
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Chris Nesjar
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26 December 2024
I used to be very pleased with WhatsApp but recently the app has started erasing the message I am busy writing whenever I attach a picture or file to it. This never used to happen but now it has already happened twice, when I had just written a long message, wasting my time. Imagine this happening to you in Outlook; the content of your e-mail vanishing just because you attached a file... Frustrating.
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Matthew Tunney
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26 December 2024
Stop trying to be social media! I don't care who is doing what, I want to communicate quickly and efficiently. A notification should be for a message, not who had what for dinner on their "story"! Great app for sending and receiving messages/pictures. The camera function is terrible. Use your own camera and send pictures directly from your gallery. The voice notes are great and videos send pretty quickly. Would be better if the default quality was HD. Not just an option.
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What's new
• You can now edit messages up to 15 minutes after sending. Long press a message and choose ‘Edit’ to get started. • Group chats show the profile photos of their participants. These features will roll out over the coming weeks. Thanks for using WhatsApp!