Both the sender and receiver are connected to Wi-Fi. If a message is sent to someone but doesn't get through, the receiver doesn't get a notification. It used to be a wonderful app, but it has been discontinued. Terrible design! It would be nice to have the option of tapping the screen again and making the film strip disappear (as it was in older versions). Even though the button can be used to access the gallery.

WhatsApp Support claims that this functionality is intended. Images from gallery cover the camera screen You are unable to view all the images you have taken. However, when you try to save that backup to your drive it will just say 'preparing to back up'. The local backup is created without any problems. Things get complicated when Drive creates the local backup. WhatsApp UWP will be offered via the new Microsoft Store which is now also available on Windows 10.Google Drive won't allow me to back it up. WhatsApp UWP will support backup, native notifications, options to customize chat, and more. As you can see in the above screenshot, WhatsApp is going to include a new drawing feature, which is set to help users annotate images and then upload them directly to the chat. Interestingly, it looks like WhatsApp is working closely with Microsoft to enable Windows Ink integration. On the other hand, the UWP client is expected to introduce better support for both voice and video calls that can be placed using a microphone. It is also going to be faster and it would show chats in the chat list, similar to the WhatsApp web.Īnyone using the WhatsApp desktop app has been limited to text-based messages and voice calls with some limitations. This new WhatsApp client is based on UWP and Meta/Facebook is apparently using the XAML UI language to match the look and feel of Windows 11 or 10 apps.

WhatsApp UWP app for Windows 11/10Īs we mentioned at the outset, the WhatsApp desktop app offers a choppy experience and it is slower than the native app available on Android or IOS. In other words, this new WhatsApp desktop client won’t be a web wrapper. Also, this is a full-fledged UWP client, written from scratch and it’s not based on web components. UWP-based WhatsApp would technically mean that Windows desktop users will be provided with access to WhatsApp chats without connecting to the web version.

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