WhatsApp’s popularity is partly down to the app constantly producing new features.
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WHATSAPP AND SIGNAL have a lot in common: they’re both messaging apps that support text, voice, and video. They can also make use of group chats, status updates, and share much of the same codebase for encrypting communications.
Still, WhatsApp’s the pick for billions of people, while Signal is in the low tens of millions. This said, due to Signal’s focus on privacy, there’s often a spike in downloadsinthewakeofprivacyscandals, such as the security bug discovered by Twitter engineer Foad Dabiri in 2023, where WhatsApp secretly activated the microphone on his Pixel phone.