iPhone users can now set WhatsApp as their default calling and texting app

You tin present take WhatsApp arsenic your iPhone’s default app for calls and substance messages, as noted by WABetaInfo. After updating WhatsApp to mentation 25.8.74, you’ll spot the app look arsenic an enactment successful your Messaging and Calling default app settings.

Apple archetypal announced that it would fto iPhone users successful the European Union change their default telephone and messaging apps, but it aboriginal said that everyone would beryllium capable to bash the same successful iOS 18.2. 

You tin alteration your default calling and texting app by heading to your settings, selecting Apps > Default Apps. From there, prime the Messaging and Calling options, and you’ll spot a database of alternate apps you tin take from, which present includes WhatsApp if you upgrade to the latest version.

Once you alteration your default app, your iPhone volition automatically propulsion up your selected app erstwhile you pat a telephone fig connected a webpage, for example, oregon prime the connection fastener from your contacts list.