Have you ever swapped from one phone to another, sticking your SIM card in before realising that you’ve just authenticated…
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Unless you’ve been hiding in a monastery without WiFi the last six months, you know that the world is a…
Adding a contact to your WhatsApp will become even easier, thanks to a new feature. Not that anyone felt it…
More people than you’d think don’t delete their WhatsApp messages, for a large variety of reasons. Maybe they’re keeping an…
Everyone and their uncle uses WhatsApp in South Africa. It’s like our common app, the piece of software that transcends…
WhatsApp is testing QR codes for business and personal chats Imagine this: You’re out for a jol post-lockdown, and you’re not in the mood to read out your mobile number to potential friends, so you print out little cards with a QR code on each. Typing someone’s WhatsApp number by hand is just sooo 2012,
Hold onto your hats, because Facebook (the parent company that owns its namesake, Instagram and WhatsApp) acquired the GIF-sharing platform…
It’s hard to believe WhatsApp will be adding support for 50 people on a call when they only recently boosted the maximum participant count from four to eight. Make no mistake, WhatsApp will definitely allow 50 people in one video call…except that they won’t. Yet they will! All through the assistance of Messenger Rooms.
Lockdown continues, which means not many of us are getting out much at all. But there’s relief on the horizon. Sadly, not a lessening of restrictions (though that would be great), but literal relief, for the country’s poorest by way of the R350pm COVID relief grant. And, provided those poor folks have access to a smartphone — as much of the country does — nobody has to go out and apply for it.
WhatsApp has reported that “highly forwarded” messages are being shared around 70% less than before the current limit was put…