WhatsApp is introducing new limits on forwarding messages to slow down the spread of misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic. Starting today, any message or piece of content that has been forwarded more than five times can only be forwarded to a single person or a group at a time. The change doesn’t stop people from […]
WhatsApp is finally getting a new dark mode on iOS and Android today. After months of beta testing on both mobile operating systems, the WhatsApp dark mode will be available for all users today. If you already have dark mode enabled at the system level on iOS 13 or Android 10, then WhatsApp will automatically […]
WhatsApp’s growth has been nothing short of impressive. Initially launched into beta in January 2009 by former Yahoo employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum, the communications app found an early following and by 2011, it was among the top 20 apps in the US App Store. Serious money from investors started flowing in at that […]
Facebook patched a critical WhatsApp vulnerability that would have allowed potential attackers to read files from a user’s local file system, on both macOS and Windows platforms. “A vulnerability in WhatsApp Desktop when paired with WhatsApp for iPhone allows cross-site scripting and local file reading,” Facebook’s security advisory explains. “Exploiting the vulnerability requires the victim […]
WhatsApp is one of the most popular smartphone apps around the world, with most people using it to keep in touch with their loved ones over normal SMS text messaging or emailing. The app, which is owned by Facebook, is regularly updated with new features to keep it at the top. Now, a new update […]
Facebook has disclosed a vulnerability in WhatsApp that allowed an attacker to take complete control over your smartphone by creating a special MP4 file and sending it to you. Because of the way it is coded, playing the file would force the app to write more data to a buffer than it’s allowed, causing a […]
WhatsApp is giving you more ways to block people from adding you to group chats. Its updated privacy settings replace the original “nobody” option with a “my contacts except” choice that lets you prevent certain people (or all of them, if you prefer) from dragging you into a group. “WhatsApp is introducing a new setting […]
Facebook the social network giant is going to add “Facebook” to their names. Instagram will soon become “Instagram from Facebook” and WhatsApp will turn into “WhatsApp from Facebook.” The company already follows this approach with its Workplace app. The Information first reported the planned changes, which Facebook confirmed directly. The new titles will appear in […]
Users across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have reported issues with parts of the social media giant’s suite of apps. Many took to rival platform Twitter to highlight the problem, which seems to be preventing images and videos from loading properly. Facebook said it was working to resolve the error as the hashtag #instagramdown began to […]
WhatsApp is testing a feature that will allow users to share their Status posts to Facebook and other services, according to The Verge. WhatsApp won’t require users to directly link their Facebook account to the chat app in order to port their Status to their Story. Instead, the transfer is made via the data-sharing API […]
WhatsApp is encouraging users to update to the latest version of the app after discovering a vulnerability that allowed spyware to be injected into a user’s phone through the app’s phone call function. A security flaw in WhatsApp can be, and has been, exploited to inject spyware into victims’ smartphones: all a snoop needs to […]