Last Updated: February 08, 2024, 13:21 IST
WhatsApp customers can quickly message their pals on iMessage and even Signal
WhatsApp is being pressured to make drastic modifications to the platform which suggests you’ll be able to ship textual content to iMessage or a Signal person.
WhatsApp is getting ready the platform to permit cross-platform messaging which is a giant transfer for the corporate. The Meta-owned messaging app is being pressured into complying by the European Union (EU), identical to Apple, the place the brand new guidelines come into impact from March 2024. What this implies is that WhatsApp must permit folks from different messaging apps to ship and obtain chats from its app.
The help can be restricted to the EU areas however it’s fascinating to see a state of affairs the place a WhatsApp person is ready to chat with a Telegram or Signal person. However, as defined by a WhatsApp engineering director this week, these modifications and third-occasion app help can be solely attainable in the event that they resolve to agree on one massive situation from Meta.
He mentions that WhatsApp will permit cross-platform messaging which incorporates textual content, photos, voice notes, and even recordsdata from one app to a different. But Dick Brouwer in an interview with Wired says that WhatsApp desires all of the messaging companies to help its platform use the identical Signal Protocol that gives encryption for messages.
Having mentioned that, WhatsApp’s dad or mum firm Meta is open to utilizing totally different encryption protocols however they should match the safety requirements that WhatsApp deems enough for its help. So, let’s say WhatsApp will get its needs and opens the platform to work with different apps, how will it search for the customers and can WhatsApp solely cater to the EU clients with these modifications? Brouwer identified that messages from different apps coming to WhatsApp will see them in a brand new part/tab of their fundamental WhatsApp display screen.
The messaging app hasn’t clearly mentioned if the cross-platform function can be opened to all its customers, even in India however going by the timeline, it will be stunning if the Meta-owned app decides to have a wider roll out of this function anytime quickly.
