WhatsApp is working on a feature that should allow those who use other messaging applications to start a chat with their users, a breakthrough in terms of interoperability.
The same goes for Messenger, another app from the Meta group.
This was reported by the American website Wired which interviewed Dick Brouwer, engineering director of WhatsApp.
Initially, support will be provided for messages, video images and files sent from one person to another.
For calls and group chats, however, you will have to wait.
The applications that could interface directly with WhatsApp and Messenger could be iMessage, Telegram, Signal and Google Messages.
Users will be allowed freedom of choice: whether to accept receiving messages from other apps or refuse.
Another detail that emerged from the interview is that messages from third-party apps will be collected in a dedicated section of WhatsApp and will not be listed together with those from other chats.
The timing for the launch of this feature has not been disclosed.
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