The actual number of chat messages sent each day is hard to come by, but with WhatsApp alone accounting for billions of users, you can imagine the sheer volume of ongoing conversations. Not all of ...

WhatsApp has added a number of features this year such as status reactions, saving disappearing messages, support for multiple smartphones, editing sent messages, Chat Lock, silence unknown callers, ...

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UPDATE (March 17, 2026): The Google Messages app now has several new features, though they’re a part of the beta app, not the stable one. Google is testing yet another feature which is not yet ...