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Meta won't host its F8 developer conference this year
Meta won't hold an F8 conference in 2022 as it shifts its attention to the metaverse.
WhatsApp makes voice messaging less of a chore
You'll be able to pause and draft messages while recording and listen to them outside of chats.
Russian court finds Meta guilty of "extremist activity", but won’t ban WhatsApp
The Meta-owned app is regularly the most popular messaging platform in Russia.
WhatsApp is nearly ready to migrate Android chats to iPhone
The latest WhatsApp iOS beta includes code references to a feature for chat history migration.
Facebook's new Privacy Center explains how the company handles data collection
The other topics that users can read up on are data use, ads, sharing and security.
WhatsApp begins offering Novi money transfers to some users in the US
A limited number of people in the US will be able to send each other Novi payments from within WhatsApp.
WhatsApp on the web lets you create your own stickers
WhatsApp's web version now has a sticker creator that makes your images chat-friendly.
WhatsApp's answer to Discord may be group chat 'communities'
WhatsApp is developing a feature that would link group chats together to form a more Discord-like community.
WhatsApp's iOS-to-Android history transfer tool rolls out to Pixel devices
After debuting on Samsung Galaxy devices at the start of September, WhatsApp’s cross-platform chat history transfer feature is now rolling out to the wider Android ecosystem.
Facebook's misinformation and violence problems are worse in India
Facebook research shows the social network's misinformation and violence issues were particularly severe in India.
WhatsApp users can now shop for items by category using 'Collections'
WhatsApp has made it easier to buy products directly from a chat with the addition of Collections to its Catalog shopping feature.
WhatsApp begins rolling out end-to-end encryption for chat backups
The wait is over. It’s now possible to encrypt your WhatsApp chat history on both Android and iOS.
Facebook explains how its October 4th outage started
Following Monday’s massive service outage that took out all of its services, Facebook has published a blog post detailing what happened yesterday.
Facebook is coming back online after hours-long outage
Facebook services seems to be slowly coming back online after one of the biggest outages in recent memory.
Facebook is down, along with Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger
On early Monday morning, a DNS error took down Facebook's infrastructure.
WhatsApp starts testing local business directories
This week, the company started testing a directory feature that allows users to scan through local shops and services that have a presence on WhatsApp and contact them.
WhatsApp rolls out end-to-end encryption for chat backups
WhatsApp announced that all users will be able to encrypt backups of their chat history.
WhatsApp may let you block your 'last seen' status contact by contact
WhatsApp has come under fire of late for its privacy policies, but an upcoming update will actually give you a bit more control over your privacy settings.
WhatsApp's iOS-to-Android chat history transfer tool rolls out to Samsung devices
WhatsApp has started rolling out its long-awaited cross-platform chat history transfer feature.
WhatsApp faces $267 million EU fine over Facebook data sharing transparency
WhatsApp has been hit with a $267 million fine for not informing EU users how it was sharing their data with Facebook.