On iOS, WhatsApp is a great way to stay connected to loved ones without having an international plan. The service regularly offers major updates and the one that has just been published is no exception to the rule. On the menu, a brand new tab calledCommunities, which recalls the value proposition of the competition that can offerSlackou Microsoft Teams.
Here users can createseveral groupsas before butgathering, in the form ofCommunity. We can then easily imagine how a young company that wishes to remain mobile will take advantage of this to bring together the discussion of its marketing teams, its finances or its acquisition. As the publisher points out, all content concernedare end-to-end encrypted.
It's better with several people
With this, WhatsApp also announced on its blog that group video calls can now support up to 32 people simultaneously. But not only that: the groups themselves, which were until now limited to just over 500 members, are now capable of welcoming double that number. Third change: thepolls, which are appearing for the first time in the exchanges.
Although considerable, these advances still pale in comparison to the dozens of additional tools offered by Telegram. What's more, the app is often considered much more secure than WhatsApp. But Facebook's alternative still remains more complete than Messages, available natively on iPhones and iPod touches,who still refuses to adopt the RCS and therefore correctly translate the reactions.
Compatibility
WhatsApp is available on iPhones runningiOS 12.0or a later version of the operating system. Unfortunately, there is no version for iPad as of today, although third-party clients do the job very well. And for large screens, Meta has developedan app to install on macOS or Windowsincluding real-time message synchronization.
The app forApple Watch, finally, is still waiting but here too independent developers have been able to offer their own solution to remedy this,like with WatchChat 2.
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Par : WhatsApp Inc.
