How to use WhatsApp on your Wear OS smartwatch

July 22, 2023 By Awanish Kumar

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Image credit : Business Today Your Wear OS smartwatch comes in handy when your phone is too cumbersome to bring out or even carry while out for a run. It can track your whereabouts, transport music to your headphones, and, for the first time, enable WhatsApp communication! The first wristwatch app for the messaging service operated by Meta is described below. In July 2023, the business quietly launched said application for Wear OS 3 watch owners in order to cater to a small portion of its billions of monthly active consumers.

A more complete version of the Wear OS app surfaced in May (via XDA-Developers), after being in some kind of beta testing for close to a year. Users could only see message notifications and quickly reply up until this point. Users can read open text chats and place and receive voice calls on the app's most recent iteration. [caption id="attachment_188083" align="aligncenter" width="640"] WhatsApp on Wear OS smartwatch

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How to install and use WhatsApp on Wear OS?

To be clear, in order to use WhatsApp, you must have a watch that is running Wear OS 3 or later. Make sure the app is installed on both your watch and your Android phone through the Play Store. The Wear OS versions of your phone's apps are not immediately synchronized with your watch. Here's an easy approach to getting WhatsApp installed on your watch:

Press the Power button to activate your watch, then tap the Play Store.
On your phone, scroll down and choose Apps.
Click Install after searching for WhatsApp.
Open WhatsApp on both your phone and watch after making sure they are both linked.
Your watch will display an eight-character code. Your phone should have a pairing popup where you may enter the code.

You will get a list of your most recent discussions when you first open the program. To participate in the discussion, choose any of them. You can respond by touching on either the keyboard symbol to use Wear OS's built-in input interface or the microphone icon at the bottom of the screen to record a voice message. This enables you to utilize a virtual keyboard, add emoticons, use Google's voice-to-text feature, or type a rapid response from a menu of options. [caption id="attachment_188084" align="aligncenter" width="1920"]

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Locating WhatsApp on Apple Watch?

One could contend that Meta ought to have given greater consideration to the larger overall Apple Watch user base (which is comparable in terms of software). There has been zero information about an upcoming Apple Watch app on the beta front. We wouldn't be shocked if hints of such a feature were to take a while to materialize, even if they did. Also read : How WhatsApp Usernames Make You Much Safer In Real Life For users of WhatsApp, this software provides Android and Wear OS with a much-needed advantage over Apple's platforms in the interim. Despite the fact that they lack iMessage, they have a more robust WhatsApp experience.