WhatsApp is about to launch its biggest upgrade in years—but there’s a surprise catch; the messaging giant has just warned users about a serious new problem, and you need to be very careful...
WhatsApp's new warning impacts its 2 billion users around the world GETTYThe devil is always in the details—and no more so than with the new WhatsApp upgrade that has generated countless
headlines in recent weeks. Meta’s messaging giant has confirmed its plans to comply with Europe’s DMA and open its platform to third-party chats.
Meta has just released
technical details as to how this will actually work. Unfortunately, it doesn’t—at least not the way it is presented. The new guidance delivers a stark warning about the fatal flaw in the update—a nasty surprise for users expecting an exciting new world of unified, secure messaging.
As everyone likely knows by now, under Europe’s DMA, WhatsApp and other so-called gateway technologies need to open up to rival services—the same regulations that have dragged Apple into the scary new world of third-party app stores. WhatsApp stole a march on others by sharing early details on how it would comply, while suggesting this would work globally, not just in Europe.
Now the platform has gone a step further, sharing more of the technical detail underpinning its approach. There’s no real new technical news here—we knew most of it. But it does shine a light on some of the ways in which different apps will interface and ensure integrity between them. That said, it’s quiet on operational details, such as how users will actually find one another in the real world.
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