After an extended beta test, WhatsApp has added a free voice calling feature to its Android app. This makes WhatsApp more competitive against services like Skype, Viber and Apple iMessage/FaceTime.

For Android smartphone owners, it’s about to become a bit of a headache to save backups of your WhatsApp messages. Users have enjoyed free backups of WhatsApp messages on Android for the past five ...

Now, in a bid to boost those messages, WhatsApp has added some new features just in time for the celebrations. The update ...

After offering the ability to transfer chats from iOS to Android for some time, WhatsApp is now beginning to roll out support for transfers from Android to iOS. [Update 07/07]: After the initial ...

The latest beta update to WhatsApp is adding better support for Android tablets with a new split-view interface that better takes advantage of the screen real estate. WhatsApp remains one of the most ...

Moving from Android to iOS and vice versa used to be a complicated task that often meant sacrificing large chunks of data or starting fresh. Things have changed for the most part, with Google, Apple, ...

WhatsApp recently announced that users would finally be able to transfer their chat history between iOS and Android devices, starting with Samsung Galaxy smartphones. While this feature was already ...

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WhatsApp announced it will no longer support Android Gingerbread starting February 2, 2020. By then, Gingerbread will almost be 10 years old. WhatsApp cut off support for Android Eclair and Froyo back ...

The pictures taken with the built-in WhatsApp can be bad, but it’s a great addition to WhatsApp to instantly take pictures while chatting with a friend and uploading a status. It can be really ...

Almost three-quarters of all WhatsApp users access the messaging app on Android, according to a study from GlobalWebIndex (GWI). Extracting data from a broader study of almost 50,000 Internet users, ...

Dylan Coyle is a reporter for Android Police, and there isn't much he doesn't cover across the Android fold. At a basic level, regardless of how complex a topic is, he tries to make it easier for ...