WhatsApp’s latest feature drop brings account sign-ups to the iPad, a major CarPlay upgrade and music sharing through Status.

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Learn how to reserve your username on WhatsApp, edit it, and also block people from messaging you even if they have your username.

WhatsApp Plus looks a lot like Telegram Premium, and Meta is betting iPhone users will pay less than $3 for things like custom stickers.

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Spoiler alert: It wasn't Liquid Glass. Meta hired Alan Dye away from Apple due to his overlooked work creating a next-gen platform.

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Alan Dye is just one of four top executives who left Apple for Meta this year, all of them vacating crucial roles as part of a larger exodus.

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Social media users responded to big news that Alan Dye will join Meta with Liquid-Glass-focused sarcasm. Is it really such a big loss?

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At long last, WhatsApp for Apple Watch goes live, bringing support for texts, voice notes and calls to your wrist.

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Apple loses another key AI executive: Ke Yang, who was leading the company’s “answer engine” project to improve Siri.

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Meta’s Ray-Ban Display smart glasses house a super-bright in-lens display and ship with a Neural Band for detecting hand movements.

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After 15 years of waiting, Instagram is now officially available on the iPad, and here’s everything you need to know about it.

The new Instagram for iPad app — at last! — emphasizes enjoying Reels, with the short videos playable on a large tablet screen.

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Meta-owned WhatsApp has launched Writing Help, a writing tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to help you compose messages faster.

Meta is adding new options to WhatsApp's status feature to let you personalize the About section of your profile with disappearing settings.

When Apple loses a fourth AI researcher in a month to Meta, not all is well in Cupertino, at least regarding artificial intelligence goals.

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Meta has hired two more key members of Apple's AI foundation models team after it recently poached one of the iPhone maker's top AI researchers.

Meta is currently testing threaded message replies in WhatsApp for iPhone for more structured conversations, especially in busy group chats.

Apple's AI efforts suffer a major setback as Meta successfully poaches Ruoming Pang, a top executive from its foundation models team.

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Meta is adding multi-user support to WhatsApp, allowing you to switch between two accounts on the same iPhone without using WhatsApp Business. You’ll be able to add a second account in the app and switch between multiple accounts easily. This...

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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