WhatsApp 2024 is a cross-platform messaging service that uses the same internet data plan you use for email and web browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with your friends. In addition to basic messaging WhatsApp users can create groups, send each other unlimited images, video and audio media messages.

WhatsApp is also available for Android, Windows desktop, and macOS desktop clients.

Features

  • No hidden costs: Once you and your friends download the application, you can use it to chat as much as you want. Send a million messages a day to your friends for free! WhatsApp uses your Internet connection: 3G/EDGE or Wi-Fi when available.
  • Multimedia: Send Video, Images, and Voice notes to your friends and contacts.
  • Group Chat: Enjoy group conversations with your contacts. Add or Remove group participants, change group subject and set a group icon.
  • Personal: Set a profile photo which will be shown to all your contacts
  • No international charges: Just like there is no added cost to send an international email, there is no cost to send WhatsApp messages internationally. Chat with your friends all over the world as long as they have WhatsApp Messenger installed and avoid those pesky international SMS costs.
  • Say no to pins and usernames: Why even bother having to remember yet another PIN or username? WhatsApp works with your phone number, just like SMS would, and integrates flawlessly with your existing phone address book.
  • No need to log in/out: No more confusion about getting logged off from another computer or device. With push notifications WhatsApp is always on and always connected.
  • No need to add buddies: Your Address Book is used to automatically connect you with your contacts. Your contacts who already have WhatsApp Messenger will be automatically displayed under Favorites, similar to a buddy list.
  • Offline Messages: Even if you miss your push notifications or turn off your iPhone, WhatsApp will save your messages offline until you retrieve them during the next application use.
  • And much more: Share location and places, Exchange contacts, Custom wallpaper, Custom notification sounds, Landscape mode, Message timestamps, Email chat history, Broadcast messages and media to many contacts at once, and much much more.

What's New

  • Unread badges are now not shown on the dock icon when WhatsApp is quit
  • Fixed an issue where the incorrect navigation was shown until the app was relaunched
  • Fixed an issue where changes to the chat wallpaper were not saved
  • Fixed an issue where the search bar and chats overlapped in the Chats tab
  • Fixed an issue where the name and timestamp overlapped in the Starred Messages tab
  • Fixed an issue where the button to join a call was truncated
  • Fixed an issue where Status was presented inside itself
  • Fixed an issue where the conversation was not scrolled to the end when returning to the app
  • Fixed an issue where notifications were not shown while the app was minimized
  • Fixed an issue with hover states when in multi-select mode in Archived Chats

We are listening to your feedback and will continue to update the app regularly to fix bugs, optimize performance and improve the experience. Thank you for using our new Mac app!

Introducing Secret Code for Chat Lock

Earlier this year we rolled out Chat Lock to help people protect their more sensitive conversations. Today we're launching secret code, an additional way to protect those chats and make them harder to find if someone has access to your phone or you share a phone with someone else.

With a secret code you'll now be able to set a unique password different from what you use to unlock your phone to give your locked chats an extra layer of privacy. You'll have the option to hide the Locked Chats folder from your chatlist so that they can only be discovered by typing your secret code in the search bar. If that doesn't suit your needs, you can still choose to have them appear in your chatlist. Whenever there's a new chat which you want to lock, you can now long press to lock it rather than visiting the chat's settings.

We're so happy our community has been loving Chat Lock, and hope that secret code makes it even more useful to them. Secret code starts rolling out today, and in the coming months will be available globally. We're excited to keep bringing more functions to Chat Lock to help people protect their privacy, let us know what you think.