This standard messaging app lastly hit Apple Watch

Should you’re a WhatsApp consumer with an Apple Watch, your expertise utilizing the app is about to enhance finally. After years of not having a local Apple Watch app and as a substitute counting on the Apple Watch’s built-in notification system to learn and reply to messages, Meta has formally launched a watchOS model of WhatsApp.

Meta introduced its new Apple Watch app for WhatsApp in a blog post right this moment, following beta testing in October. The tech large states that its new Apple Watch app helps “many requested options,” together with the power to see who’s calling you on WhatsApp and consider full messages in your wrist while not having to unlock your iPhone.

“At the moment we’re asserting a giant improve on your wrist — the all-new WhatsApp app on your Apple Watch. This new expertise will show you how to keep on prime of your chats while not having to drag out your iPhone,” Meta mentioned in a blog post.

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Not each Apple Watch mannequin is supported

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Meta’s long-awaited WhatsApp app for the Apple Watch is now rolling out. To apply it to your Apple Watch, you will must replace the app from the App Store, which is able to mechanically obtain the Apple Watch model as properly.

Nonetheless, not each Apple Watch is appropriate with WhatsApp. Meta states that the app is simply supported by the Apple Watch Collection 4 or later, and you should have a minimum of watchOS 10 put in in your watch to make use of it.

That mentioned, after you have the app in your Apple Watch, there are a ton of WhatsApp options now you can use in your wrist that you simply beforehand weren’t capable of, together with the power to document and ship voice messages, react to messages with emojis, see photos despatched to you in your Apple Watch, and see extra of your chat historical past when studying messages in your watch. Meta says it plans to proceed updating the app sooner or later, with “much more helpful performance.”

Contemplating the primary Apple Watch was launched in 2015, I am a little bit shocked it took Meta a decade to lastly develop an official WhatsApp app for watchOS. However on the identical time, it additionally took Meta a decade to launch an Instagram app for the iPad, so I actually should not be shocked. I suppose that is the 12 months Meta has lastly determined to launch apps it has been delaying for years.