JAKARTA - The world's largest messaging app has finally come on the world's most popular wearable device. In the announcement on Tuesday 4 November, WhatsApp officially launched a special app for Apple Watch. Now, the Apple smartwatch device can be used to handle various messaging activities on Meta's services.
Through this new application, users can receive incoming call notifications without having to open the iPhone. In addition, users can also read WhatsApp messages in full directly on the small Apple Watch screen.
Messages containing images and stickers can also be seen on the watch screen, complete with previous chat history.
Not only to receive messages, users can also record and send voice messages directly from their wrists. As usual, WhatsApp maintains security with end-to-end encryption system.
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The WhatsApp app for Apple Watch can only be used on the Apple Watch Series 4 or later, with a watchOS 10 operating system or a higher version.
The presence of this application can be said to be quite surprising, given the length of time the development of the Meta application in Apple's ecosystem.
The Apple Watch version of the WhatsApp app comes more than 16 years after WhatsApp's initial launch on the iPhone in August 2009, and 11 years after Facebook acquired the messaging platform. Apple Watch itself was first released in 2015 exactly a decade ago.
In fact, with huge resources owned by Meta, many think making apps for other platforms will be easier. However, history shows that that doesn't apply to Apple's ecosystem.
WhatsApp only released its iPad version in May 2025, even though the iPhone and iPad are in a very similar ecosystem. In fact, the iPad version does not stand alone, but is still connected to the WhatsApp account on the user's cellphone makes it more of a companion application.
WhatsApp isn't the only slow Meta service to come on Apple devices. Last September, after 15 years and nearly 400 iOS updates, Instagram finally launched its app version for the iPad in response to a long-awaited user request.
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