WhatsApp. The biggest messaging platform on the planet is constantly being copied by other competing platforms, but here's how even Apple found something worthy to take from Facebook's application. This week, the first important news related to iOS 13 began to appear, and among them we have something that shows us that iOS 13 is going to natively offer a function available in WhatsApp as well.
WhatsApp. More precisely, those from Apple want to offer users the possibility to set a username and a profile picture that will be visible to the people they interact with, but only with some of them. At the moment, the phone number or the Apple ID are visible when we receive iMessages from strangers, and otherwise the name of the contact appears for messages, but starting with iOS 13 Apple will change its messaging platform to make it more similar much like that of WhatsApp.
WhatsApp. The function STOLEN by Apple for iOS 13
WhatsApp. Users will not only be able to set a username and a profile picture in the platform, but they will also be able to choose who can see them, a special menu for these options will be available. Apple now allows the choice of hiding receipt confirmations for the messages that our contacts send us, but inspired by WhatsApp, the Americans want to offer in iOS 13 something much different than what we have now.
iMessage gets an upgrade with a WhatsApp-like enhancement that lets people set a profile picture and display name, and choose who sees it. There's also a dedicated menu in the conversation view to send sticker versions of Animojis, the virtual characters that users can control with the latest iPhone and iPad cameras, and Memojis, which are virtual representations of users themselves.
WhatsApp. With this change, iMessage is becoming more of a commercial messaging platform than something owned by a company that produces mobile phones, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Hundreds of millions of people use iMessage, they prefer the Apple platform instead of WhatsApp, and those at Apple know that people still want simplicity, so in iOS 13 they offer it, but with some bonuses, which will be supplemented by others.
WhatsApp. Unfortunately, those from Apple don't really take all the good functions from the messaging platform, but maybe in the future they will take over other interesting news for users all over the world.