Sending a message to someone on WhatsApp while you are on Messenger, Telegram or another app will soon be possible…
Thunderclap within messaging applications. Several major new features are planned within the WhatsApp application, the most used in France and in the world. These major developments should notably allow users to take advantage of the application… without needing to install it on their smartphone! We explain to you how such a thing is possible.
Even if there has been no official announcement on the subject, the WABetaInfo site, a real reference on WhatsApp news and secrets, revealed that a major update was being prepared, making it possible to make the application Meta compatible with other smartphone messaging services.
This development is the result of new European regulations, forcing Web giants to make some of their services “interoperable”, in other words compatible with each other. For users, this should above all facilitate communications and avoid saturating phones with applications.
Concretely, a person who is on Messenger or Telegram will be able to send a message to a WhatsApp user, without having an account and even without downloading the application. Your contact will then receive your message on WhatsApp and will also be able to respond to it by sending you a message that you will also receive on your own application (iMessage, Signal, Telegram, etc.).
It remains to be seen when this update will be available to users. If it is not yet functional at the time of writing, it is already visible in the widgets and menus present in the WhatsApp source code (in beta), as several developers have pointed out. Enough to provide for rapid availability.
But a question arises about this new version of WhatsApp, which regularly generates debate about the security and protection of user data: will messages shared with other apps be end-to-end encrypted, like Is this the case on the application currently? According to the WABetaInfo site which has the source code for the update, the answer is yes. “End-to-end” encryption which should reassure users like those of other soon-to-be compatible apps.
