Only some 2 billion people worldwide, making it the biggest chat app in the world.
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How to Use Your WhatsApp Account Across Multiple Phones
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Only some 2 billion people worldwide, making it the biggest chat app in the world.
I've traveled to some places where it isn't a bad idea to carry a cheap android while going out at night in case you get robbed. Previously, i had to have 2 numbers, i think this would help me by allowing me to use that same whatsapp # and contacts on both phones.
Just one use case
Facebook having access to your text messages? Hells no!
The U.S. govt having access to your text messages? Ok
LOL... wait, there are people who don't know there's a world outside of the U.S.?
Most popular messaging apps 2025| Statista
As of February 2025, approximately two billion users were accessing Meta's WhatsApp messenger on a monthly basis.
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Everyone does but the US and maybe Sweden or Australia. Back home you can’t do anything without WhatsApp. From planning and booking your wedding to your next dentist appointment. You can now even make appointments to renew your passport via WhatsApp. When I booked a hotel in India, it was all done via WhatsApp as well. In the beginning I found it a bit strange but you get used to it
A phone number reveals where and who you are. Why would I want Zuckerberg to have this information?
You honestly believe Facebook doesn't already have your information, even if you don't use any of their products/services?
Read up about their "shadow profiles"
How Facebook can have your data even if you're not on Facebook
How does Facebook collect data on people not on the social network? What can you do about it?
www.usatoday.com
Facebook fuels broad privacy debate by tracking non-users
Concern about Facebook Inc's respect for data privacy is widening to include the information it collects about non-users, after Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the world's largest social network tracks people whether they have accounts or not.
a) I have multiple numbers, not two numbers.
b) WA Business is not a good option for a personal number.
Making it the largest group of people willing to give away their data all in one place.
Interestingly there's an Android tablet version… which I'm pretty sure came about because of the folding phones rather than specifically tablets. Usually the Apple devices get priority. I'm not sure you're missing much though… there's this split mode (contact on the left and current chat on the right) that's always on and the size of the split is unchangeable. The only upside is that split mode doesn't affect calls.
WhatsApp Revenue and Usage Statistics (2023)
WhatsApp Revenue and Usage Statistics (2025)
WhatsApp is a messaging app for smartphones created in 2009 by two former Yahoo employees, Brian Acton and Jan Koum. It was Koum who saw the potential of operating through the Apple App Store after purchasing an iPhone in early 2009. The app initially focused on statuses; Koum later revealed...
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I cannot comprehend why they won't make it lol, this is getting ridiculous
I need Whatsapp to work, and it's a pain to transfer everything from my phone to ipad (especially since i just went to android ....imagine the pain)
really - for many countries What's app functions like the nation's utility company
Split mode on devices like the Fold 4 can be toggled off
Sure… but that's then a whole pile of stupid on a 16:10 tablet in landscape orientation. 😂
If you don't use other Meta products there's very little they can actually data mine unless you believe they read your chats.
Huh? You think you have to use multiple products for them to collect and sell your data?
Did you miss @icanhazmac post #21? They collect everything. Anything related to Meta is disease. It doesn’t matter if you don’t use Facebook, IG, or any of their hardware on top of the WhatsApp app. They have the right to do what they want with any connecting services (it’s all Meta) you sign off on when downloading and making an account to use those services.
Not in the EU at least. They got fined a couple of months ago and just implemented a lot of new settings (supposedly only available in the EU) to stop cross device tracking, using app data etc.
what I am more curious about is if META is storing its European data actually in Europe because the US is deemed unsafe and even Google Analytics is illegal because it is sending the IP to the US
That may make a difference. I keep forgetting the US isn’t the center of the universe. 👊🤪👍
Doesn’t change how I feel about the company or the lengths they go to in order to get what they want. No love, no trust.