This common messaging app lastly hit Apple Watch

For those who’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 an alternative 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 as we speak, 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 think about full messages in your wrist without having to unlock your iPhone.

“As we speak we’re asserting a giant improve to your wrist — the all-new WhatsApp app to your Apple Watch. This new expertise will enable you keep on high of your chats without having to tug out your iPhone,” Meta mentioned in a blog post.

Easy methods to get WhatsApp in your Apple Watch

Not each Apple Watch mannequin is supported

Credit score: Meta

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

Nevertheless, not each Apple Watch is suitable with WhatsApp. Meta states that the app is barely supported by the Apple Watch Collection 4 or later, and you need to have at the very least 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 report and ship voice messages, react to messages with emojis, see pictures 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 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 assume that is the 12 months Meta has lastly determined to launch apps it has been delaying for years.