WhatsApp Messenger Facts and Updates 2017

What is Whats App Messenger?

WhatsApp Messenger is a FREE messaging app available for iPhone and other smartphones. ... Switch from SMS to WhatsApp to send and receive messages, calls, photos, videos, and Voice Messages.

How does what's app works?

WhatsApp is a texting service between mobile phones as a replacement for the regular SMS text messages. Over 900 million users are active worldwide using the Whatsapp service. Whatsapp uses an internet connection between phones. The service is available for iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Nokia Symbian60-phones.


WhatsApp Facts: Over 30 Billion Messages Daily


WhatsApp, the leading messaging service right now, has over 700 million active users, Jan Koum, CEO and co-founder of the service, stated in his Facebook profile.

Jan Koum went on saying that the messaging service delivers more than 30 billion messages daily, from emojis to images to text.

Monthly active WhatsApp users worldwide as of January 2017. As of that month, the mobile messaging app announced more than 1.2 billion monthly active users, up from over 700 million in January 2015. The service is one of the most popular mobile apps worldwide.

WhatsApp in Over 109 Countries, With 70 Million Users in India: Study

                           
                              


Line, WeChat, and Telegram are three other messaging apps claiming multiple countries with China, Iran and Japan representing countries using one of these apps.

WhatsApp has a new update - and it will change the way you send text messages

WhatsApp has rolled-out a major new update to its hugely-successful chat app. And it might just change the way you send text messages.
The latest software update, which is now available for iPhone owners, lets users send text messages – even when they do not have a wifi or mobile data connection.

Following the update, "messages will be queued up and sent when your phone regains a connection," WhatsApp clarifies in the App Store listing.



Here is a list of devices that will no longer support WhatsApp by 2017

• Any device running Android 2.1
• Any device running Android 2.2
• Windows Phone 7
• iPhone 3GS
• Any device running iOS 6
  
  

Back-up chats, transfer contacts to your new phone after support ENDS

How To Change The Phone Number Linked To Your WhatsApp Account To A New Phone

Navigate to WhatsApp > Menu Button > Settings > Account > Change Number to associate a new number with the chat app.

 How To Back-Up Your Chats, Contacts, Photos On Windows Phone

Settings > System > Storage Sense – known as Storage on Windows 10 Mobile).

 How To Back-Up Your Chats, Contacts, Photos On iPhone

To launch a manual back-up of your chats, go to WhatsApp Settings > Chats > Chat Backup and tap Back Up Now.

How To Back-Up Your Chats, Contacts, Photos On Android 

Then head to Menu Button > Settings > Chats > Chat Backup.