There will be changes coming to WhatsApp. With this significant and comprehensive update, users will be able to send messages from other messaging applications and have them appear in your WhatsApp. That’s really cool.
Legislators in the European Union labeled WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, as a “gatekeeper company” in September of last year and mandated that it allow other parties to use its services after six months, or by March of this year.
The esteemed Matt Burgess of Wired has stated that WhatsApp has been working toward opening things up for almost two years, thus it has just recently been partially persuaded to make this decision.
By enabling messages to be sent to you at WhatsApp from other apps, the new approach aims to solve this uncomfortable situation.
With this modification, those other applications will be able to integrate with WhatsApp, enabling cross-app communication without undermining the effectiveness of the end-to-end encryption.
File transfers, voice messages, photos, videos, and text messaging will be the first to be interoperable. Conversations and phone calls will follow, sometimes even years later.
Dick Brouwer, an engineering director at WhatsApp, is quoted by Wired as saying that opting in is a fundamental necessity.
According to Brouwer, “I have the freedom to decide whether or not I want to engage in the practice of being open to exchanging messages with third parties.” “This is significant because spam and scams may come from it in large quantities.”
If you choose to opt in, Brouwer notes that because “these networks are very different,” messages from other applications will show up at the top of your inbox in a distinct section.
It makes sense in that it is a natural progression of what has made WhatsApp so well-liked, particularly in Europe: it is cross-platform. Thus, you didn’t have to worry about your pals owning an Android or iPhone because WhatsApp could connect with them.
You should now be able to contact your friends and family without having to download every app and without even knowing if they prefer Telegram, Signal, or iMessage.
