Apple's iOS 26 software could enhance the iPhone's built-in Messages app with new capabilities, including polls and automatic translation.

WhatsApp will let you sign in to the service with a username instead of your phone number for increased privacy when messaging and texting.

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.

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

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

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

Learn how to set WhatsApp for iPhone as the default app for placing outgoing VoIP calls and sending messages instead of the built-in ones.

Support for end-to-end encryption for texts between iPhone and Android is coming soon via the Rich Communication Services (RCS) 3.0 protocol.

WhatsApp is testing a new threaded replies feature to make replying to specific message in busy group chats less confusing.

Microsoft is shutting down Skype in May, fourteen years after buying the VoIP service, with Teams serving as Microsoft's own successor.

WhatsApp is testing automatically clearing the unread message count badge on its icon every time you open the app to reduce Home Screen clutter.