Mark Zuckerberg Disguising WhatsApp Synthetics Safer Weighting IMessage

JAKARTA - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has just thrown a bomb at Apple. He claims his WhatsApp messaging app is safer than iMessage.

Through his official Instagram page quoted on Tuesday, October 18, Zuckerberg uploaded digital advertisements by making fun of iMessage's green and blue bubbles while promoting WhastApp's end-to-end encryption security features.

WhatsApp is much more private and secure than iMessage, with end-to-end encryption working on iPhone and Android, including group chats, Zuckerberg said.

Apple's messaging service does have an end-to-end encryption feature, but only when all users are in conversations use Apple devices.

However, when iPhone users use SMS or MMS, they are not encrypted with Android phones.

"With WhatsApp, you can also set up all the new chats to disappear with a single tap button," Zuckerberg said.

"And last year we also introduced end-to-end encrypted backups. Everything is still not owned by iMessage," he added.

On Twitter, WhatsApp boss Will Cathcart said the end-to-end encryption of the messaging app extends to cross-platform conversations.

"If you have an iPhone, you may notice when your text changes color suddenly. That means your message is sent via SMS. This reduced privacy occurs without your warning or consent," Cathcart said.

"WhatsApp is much more private and secure for various reasons. On WhatsApp, end-to-end encryption is automatically functioning properly. WhatsApp also has more privacy features, such as missing message threads, media messages that can only be seen once, and the ability to set all new chats to automatically disappear with a single tap. This is a privacy feature that iMessage doesn't have," he continued.

Earlier this year Google criticized Apple's policy of encouraging companies to allow sending RCS messages on iPhones, as quoted by TechSpot.

Google adopted RCS on Android last year, which also encrypts end-to-end. The company has since complained that Apple is locking users into its ecosystem by simply allowing encryption and other advanced features through iMessage.

However, WhatsApp also did not escape the satire of its competitor Telegram due to security concerns. Telegram founder Pavel Durov last month called the service basically unsafe. He said WhatsApp's vulnerability was a "planted backdoor" and claimed the app as a surveillance tool.