Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are DOWN: Social media apps crash for frustrated users across the world Facebook owned Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook and Messenger are down The services stopped working at about 17:30 GMT around the world The outages were first reported by the website Downdetector By Ryan Morrison For Mailonline Published: 17:42 GMT, 19 March … Read more
A police officer guarding the Sarah Everard murder scene allegedly sent inappropriate WhatsApp messages to colleagues about her killing. A probationary Met police constable, who had been deployed as a cordon officer supporting the search operation in Kent, is said to have shared an ‘inappropriate graphic’ on social media with some colleagues. Horrified fellow officers … Read more
A police officer guarding the Sarah Everard murder scene allegedly sent inappropriate WhatsApp messages to colleagues about her killing. A probationary Met police constable, who had been deployed as a cordon officer supporting the search operation in Kent, is said to have shared an ‘inappropriate graphic’ on social media with some colleagues. Horrified fellow officers … Read more
While users enjoy end-to-end encryption on their personal chats on WhatsApp, this is not something that is extended to your backups on cloud services like Google Drive and iCloud. So the messaging app is reportedly working on a way to protect users by bringing password-protected encrypted chat backups so the user can further ensure that … Read more
The skipper of a fishing trawler which sank another boat and killed three anglers on board was distracted by his Whatsapp messages, a court heard. David Marr, 55, was sending messages to a friend as his 85ft vessel the Vertrouwen steamed down on the tiny fishing boat known as the James 2. Brighton Crown Court … Read more
The skipper of a fishing trawler which sank another boat and killed three anglers on board was distracted by his Whatsapp messages, a court heard. David Marr, 55, was sending messages to a friend as his 85ft vessel the Vertrouwen steamed down on the tiny fishing boat known as the James 2. Brighton Crown Court … Read more
WhatsApp seems to be experimenting with several ways for your messages to automatically disappear after a certain amount of time. Late last year, they rolled out the disappearing messages feature but some thought that seven days was a bit too long. Now sources are saying that they are looking into giving you the option to … Read more
Since we’re probably still be living with video calls over the next few months, a lot of apps are making it easier for their users to make such calls for work and for loved ones. WhatsApp is now letting its users have encrypted video and voice calls on the desktop app. This will be more … Read more
Zoom has got competition! WhatsApp launches desktop calling that lets users make one-to-one voice and video calls from their Mac or PC From today WhatsApp is rolling out the update for Windows PCs and Mac users It’s just for one-to-one calls – but it will roll out group voice and video chats later WhatsApp rolled out … Read more
The kerfuffle over the privacy policy that WhatsApp was seemingly forcing on its users seem to have calmed down the past few weeks. The Facebook-owned app eventually moved its original deadline to later this year to give its users more time to understand the new terms and policies and to also launch campaigns to counter … Read more