All of my close friends use WhatsApp. Its great and I prefer it over SMS. Also many of them use iPhones so it is fully compatible with Android too unlike iMessenger.
iMessage needs something like this. The attachments are a MESS and a reason I stopped using iCloud Messages. Why is there no DELETE ALL button?? It’s a pain in the ass to remove all attached images from a conversation and then it shows you different storage / images in the message app itself compared to the settings app and also I don’t like that you can’t automatically save all received images to the camera roll. I always end up wondering like hmmmm did I already save them and can I delete them from messages?
Yep, iMessage is utter crap, I don't understand why people would prefer it. I've even read people on this forum saying they will never switch to Android simply because of iMessage!
Don’t really know much about WhatsApp. Isn’t it just another Facebook messenger-like app? What makes people here who actively hate (justifiably) Facebook, want to use this app?
I’m American btw if that even helps. Everybody in my social circle uses iMessage, FB messenger, and Snapchat
It's because you are American. iMessage is like yours football, and WhatsApp is like soccer. No one in the world calls it soccer, just plain football, but only the Americans don't know its THE only football for the rest of the world.
It's like the only true world messaging app. It's been around 6 years I don't use SMS and iMsg anymore. If you travel abroad, it will be everywhere. No one uses FB messenger, iMsg, Snapchat anymore. (maybe only not in China, since they use WeChat)
Zuckerberg is way ahead of you. Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp are being merged into just "front ends" for the end user, the backend is all Facebook.