Meta has launched message summaries in WhatsApp, using artificial intelligence (AI) to create a summary of your unread messages in a chat.

The inevitable finally happened, with Meta bringing ads to WhatsApp Status, allowing businesses to promote their services or products.

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Meta is integrating its AI Studio into WhatsApp, so you can build your own AI chatbot assistant and use it within the messaging software.

Meta is rolling out a small but important privacy tweak in WhatsApp to ensure messages you've deleted are also removed from quoted replies.

Meta has finally released a native WhatsApp interface for Apple's iPad, available in WhatsApp for iOS v25.16.81 which just hit the App Store.

Learn how to start an audio chat on WhatsApp with some or all of group participants, adjust live audio privacy, change call setting and more.

Meta, Match and Spotify join forces against Apple and Google over app store practices, including who should be saddled with age verification.

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A new Meta AI app for iPhone provides easy access to Meta's Llama 4 AI model and an enhanced voice mode for personalized responses.

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Meta now provides a dedicated iPhone and iPad app to converse with its AI chatbot based on the open-source Llama 4 large language model.

Learn how to boost privacy on WhatsApp by blocking chat participants from exporting your conversations and downloading media to their phone.

Apple is fined for breaching the Digital Markets Act over rules preventing developers from telling iPhone users about cheaper web payments.

Instagram's CapCut clone, called Edits, has now launched on the iPhone and Android as a standalone AI-powered video-editing software.

In a petty move, Meta blocks access to Apple Intelligence's Writing Tools feature across its apps on iPhone and Mac.

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Here's how Instagram Blend works and how to use it for shared reels feeds that combine recommendations that you and select friends may like.

Apple Intelligence is no longer available inside of Meta's most popular apps such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads.

Meta has released a major WhatsApp update bringing several new features and improvements across calls, group chats, events, channels and more.

An official Instagram iPad app is reportedly in the works as Meta is looming to capitalize on the upcoming TikTok ban in the United States.

WhatsApp is testing an advanced chat privacy feature to limit the sharing of messages, photos and videos in individual and group conversations.

Meta could release its next-gen smart glasses later this year featuring a built-in display, upgraded cameras, and support for hand gestures.

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Meta has rolled out a Friends tab in the mobile app for iOS and Android in an attempt to bring back some of the magic of the original Facebook.