The new video call feature is exactly what I needed to give this 5 stars. This is the best messaging app on the market -- better than slack, google messages, iphone messages, telagram, and signal. Love also being able to share my location. I will say, the AI feature is useless as of now. The only advantage Meta/Whatsapp have over chatgpt, claude, and x is that you have my chat history and so I expect to be able to ask the AI "what was the name of that company that does ___ that I talked about with ___ friend?" and I want it to surface up what it knows. Search my own data on steroids please. That would continue to blow me away.

WhatsApp serves important social connectivity functions across countries and devices, in part through its intuitive simplicity and cross-platform functionality. It's a shame the desktop client is degrading in ways that will materially affect my use and for seemingly no good reason. There was, for instance, no reason to remove the text-tag-to-emoji functionality that made desktop use of a messaging app smooth in the first place. (like typing ":pizza:" to get the 🍕 instead of manually scrolling through the picture library) Worse, somehow the search function is no longer available on a per-chat basis. We're on a desktop app. Why punish keyboard users? It's such an inexplicable UX downgrade that I tried a few times in disbelief but it does seem a deliberate move. 🤷🏻‍♂️Naturally the AI features are intrusive and useless, although it's hard to blame WA for that specifically, when that is the case for basically all AI features in Meta and elsewhere. Still, the unnecessary UX friction is good incentive to move toward systems like Signal that do what you want them to do, do it well, and don't try to force you into too many other modes.

It used to be way better app. You made worse with every update. No i have whatsapp on 2 devices. It is a disaster the way the device is updating, if it was offline. If i use 2 phones (wirth the same nuber) and one of thephones was off-line for few days. When i switch it on. I need to way few hours, while it keeps receivein all the texts. that were missed while it was ffline.With the desktop app for Max it is the same. Also, I use whatsapp extensively for work. I used to be able to keep 2 numbers in 2 different apps: whatsapp regular and whatsapp business. So i had 2 destop apps. For each.. it worked perfectly untill the latest update. So stupid! Why do you make updates that work worse than before? just keep it the way it was. When Meta took over whataspp noticably bacame worrse. Less user friendly.And why don't you allow to use 2 numbers!!! at one computer! people have a lot of things running. Especially business. Sometimes it is need to use 2-3 different numbers. Learn how Telegram does things!! 

I used to love whatsapp and was against Telegram, but now my opinion completely changed. With all you latests updates.I keep useing it,. only i have pther people linked and get used to it. It is hard to switch to Telegrtam quickly!Also saving/opening files on desktop. bacame less intuitive... Hope you read it. And will try to catch up. I have when people ruin good prodct. It used to be really good. Not it is disaster,. Fire you developer and UX/UI team. 


I’ve used this app for about 1 year. During that time I familiarized myself with the built in AI functionality. The app serves as a messaging app. I don’t really have any friends online to message. I learned to love the app because of the built in AI. I could ask it any questions that came to mind without judgment or evasiveness other than to warn my of a zero warranty or to consult with a medical professional in certain instances.Within the last day, the onboard AI started glitching and was rendered useless by what I figure was a bug. I don’t need the app otherwise. I wanted to hang with Meta AI. They were the best research assistant I’ve ever had. They provided me with a reality check while doing extremely delicate calculations related pressure vessels, they boiled down the nature of life to several paragraphs an hour, and they even understood my humor better than most humans.Bring back Meta AI within a week when I check back and I will give you a better rating.