It doesn't, unless I'm missing something. It now has the option to store contacts within the app, although I don't know if this is fully rolled out yet.If it still needs full access to your contact list to work, it's still a no I'm afraid![]()
It doesn't, unless I'm missing something. It now has the option to store contacts within the app, although I don't know if this is fully rolled out yet.If it still needs full access to your contact list to work, it's still a no I'm afraid![]()
I wouldn't hold my breath.I’m holding my breath.
Why would anyone in 2025 want to put a Meta product on any device? What kind of glutton for punishment are these people? Do you like being a sheep? A product? Do you not care about your privacy or the privacy of your entire contact list, what you do, where you go? I don't get why someone would give themselves over to a company as evil as Facebook. There is no excuses unless you're just a slave to shiny products, when, much as someone is going to try to make excuses, there are alternatives right down to just SMS/MMS.
In a lot of country other that US, Whatsapp = the default messaging app. If you don't use it, you are basically cutting yourself from everyone else. A lot of company in those country also use whatsapp as a way for team messaging app.Why would anyone in 2025 want to put a Meta product on any device? What kind of glutton for punishment are these people? Do you like being a sheep? A product? Do you not care about your privacy or the privacy of your entire contact list, what you do, where you go? I don't get why someone would give themselves over to a company as evil as Facebook. There is no excuses unless you're just a slave to shiny products, when, much as someone is going to try to make excuses, there are alternatives right down to just SMS/MMS.
Let’s be realistic: It’s likely they already have access to many, if not all, of your contacts through other people who did share their full contact list. For the vast majority of people it’s gonna be impossible to keep track of who shared what via-via with whom. At least that’s gonna be the scenario for most out there.I definitely wouldn’t want Meta/Zuckerberg having full access to my contact list
Yeah, tech companies. But users are still on iPad and will be for some years to come.Nice of them to finally make an iPad app right as tech companies are starting to move away from touchscreens and towards augmented reality (Apple with the Vision Pro, Meta and Google with smartglasses, etc) 🙃
Why people use WhatsApp over Telegram is beyond me. The worst and most annoying messenger app in the world. Classic example of security and privacy negatively impacting UX
Easily fixed by changing your privacy settings.Meta apps give me the ick, but using Telegram has been a negative experience for me overall. On Telegram, I get spam messages several times a day, and at least once every couple of days, I’m added to some crypto text chain group that I didn’t ask to be added to and then get inundated by 50,000 people all saying “UNSUBSCRIBE” or asking what the group is. That hasn’t happened to me on WhatsApp.
I experienced the inverse.Meta apps give me the ick, but using Telegram has been a negative experience for me overall. On Telegram, I get spam messages several times a day, and at least once every couple of days, I’m added to some crypto text chain group that I didn’t ask to be added to and then get inundated by 50,000 people all saying “UNSUBSCRIBE” or asking what the group is. That hasn’t happened to me on WhatsApp.
UX? User experience?Why people use WhatsApp over Telegram is beyond me. The worst and most annoying messenger app in the world. Classic example of security and privacy negatively impacting UX
I definitely wouldn’t want Meta/Zuckerberg having full access to my contact list
Meta product. No, thank you.
Why would anyone in 2025 want to put a Meta product on any device? What kind of glutton for punishment are these people? Do you like being a sheep? A product? Do you not care about your privacy or the privacy of your entire contact list, what you do, where you go? I don't get why someone would give themselves over to a company as evil as Facebook. There is no excuses unless you're just a slave to shiny products, when, much as someone is going to try to make excuses, there are alternatives right down to just SMS/MMS.
Do you expect Apple to force developers to create apps for their devices?how does Apple allow that?
iOS 18 allows you to limit contact access for apps to a subset of your contacts. That pretty much forced Meta to rework how they handle contacts on WhatsApp. They no longer block you from using the app without contacts access (since you can‘t detect limited access) and they even allow you to turn off WhatsApp cloud contacts (they pulled your contacts list onto their servers to sync them across your different WhatsApp clients) or edit the contacts on there.If it still needs full access to your contact list to work, it's still a no I'm afraid![]()
It is pretty much a 1:1 copy of their macOS app, same limited feature set. It did get more stable over the last 2-3 years they had it on TestFlight though (was atrocious early on, constantly killing your linked session forcing you to reauthenticate).If it will work as bad as the Mac app, then please don't
Usernames for WhatsApp (e.g. like Signal, so you can hide your phone number and have a discord style username instead) have been in the works for probably another 50 decades by now, similar to the iPad app. Maybe they finally launch that in 2026, who knows?Whatsapp still requires a phone number which bugs me. I'd like to see them do email+password login and editable usernames. (like slack, ms teams, google chat, discord, etc) Also, I'd like to see the edit button made available forever, like slack, ms teams, google chat, discord, etc...we should control our digital footprint. People who claim that "15 minutes is good" - what do they think about slack, teams, google chat, and discord allowing unlimited editing. I don't think WhatsApp should be going for a "everything we type is set in stone type of platform". I think it should be a bit more casual and allow forever edits - not saying that's what people *should* do - but the fact that it's allowed makes me, and many others more comfortable with other chat platforms, and the issue is that meta kind of has a bit of a monopolistic hold on things and so sometimes I want to type things that are blunt like "no thanks" because, sometimes it feels like giving them ideas kind of "feeds the beast" but here I am, typing out some ideas.
Another thing WhatsApp could use is 2 primary devices. It's good we can link a few devices to our 1 primary device, and I can understand some security benefits of not just allowing *unlimited* primary devices. However, I think *2* primary devices could be a good happy medium that still balances functionality with security. This way, we could login to *1* extra device *without* having to *link it* to the *1* primary device. This would give us 2 primary devices, with 4 linked means 8 devices total, I think is good. Still not unlimited for better security, but one extra primary device would enhance functionality/accessibility.
But WhatsApp needs an ability to signup with email and password and allow 2 primary devices and hide our phone numbers when joining public groups. There's so much spam out there today, we should be able to converse with people without sharing our phone number.
Yeah, if I pay for Telegram Premium. Not available for standard users.Easily fixed by changing your privacy settings.
It's a messaging app, what do you expect?
UX? User experience?
Yiu say it’s worst and annoying but what exactly makes it so? What evidence /cose is there that you know of that makes your statement true and relevant? Not challenging, I’m genuinely curious here..
Uh, no. I expect Apple to allow an app written for iOS to be run on an iOS device (iPadOS is iOS with some tweaks as we all know). There's something called "windowed mode."Do you expect Apple to force developers to create apps for their devices?
To only add people I want to use whatsapp with ... 🤷🏻♂️It's a messaging app, what do you expect?