Disappointing Experience and Subscription Lockdown
I initially downloaded this app to use WhatsApp on my iPad Mini 6, but the experience has been far from smooth. The app essentially just wraps the WhatsApp website in a clunky interface that doesn’t even fit the full screen of the iPad, making it feel awkward and out of place. There were various quirks and issues that made it difficult to use comfortably.
Today, I opened the app to try and communicate with a friend, only to find that it’s now completely locked behind a subscription paywall. I checked the App Store for any new features or updates, but none of them appealed to me at all. For an app that didn’t function well to begin with, the subscription model feels unjustified. I’ll be uninstalling it and would not recommend it to others.Update and then . . . complete switch!
I’ve been using this app for years to get WhatsApp on my iPad. It has been buggy and quirky, but worked. Tonight I updated from the app store and now it’s a totally different app with a required subscription from the splashscreen. No introduction, no trial period. Nothing.
It’s not that I would necessarily mind paying something, but, given how mediocre it has been, I would want an opportunity to at least look at it. (Maybe they might be motivated to fix the bugs if I paid something, but I don’t want to find out by paying first.)
Delete and start over.A Spammers’ Paradise
My first time on Messenger today. An unknown person contacted me and told me to install WhatsApp so we could talk. I did, and in privacy, he tried to sell me on the store card scam he was running by telling me I’d won $600,000 and a new car. All I had to do was illegally come up with $300 on a store card, and my future would be made.
It just so happens that I’ve been hired by our local sheriffs office, as I am a cybercrime specialist, to investigate identity theft and fraud. Scams like this joker’s fall right into that category.
I think I will change the one-star rating I gave to 3 stars. Why? I caught a lawbreaker, and I get to report him to the attorney general’s office in my state. Thanks, WhatsApp…I guess?