Does anyone know where this is at? I thought WhatsApp were being forced by the EU in 2024 to introduce this under the Digital Markets App? I’m googling, but am finding very little info.
It would be great if we could use Signal to communicate with WhatsApp groups. The sooner I can delete WhatsApp the better.
Unfortunately this doesn’t actually work. Even if people do try Signal, they see they only have one or two contacts, and they go back to WhatsApp.
And you should call them whiny, scared little babies for doing so. But I digress.
Other people have succeeded in getting friend/family groups to switch to better E2EE options, so I believe that most people who say it can’t be done haven’t actually tried.
I’ve tried extensively. For years. I was a regular Signal donor, too.
I don’t know where you’re from, but in much of the world, asking someone to use something other than WhatsApp is like saying “stop using email”, it’s an extremely difficult sell.
So they either keep Signal around and be able to talk to you, or they don’t. They don’t need to stop using WA to use Signal.
If they don’t want to do that, it’d mean that you would have to keep WA around for the one or two contacts you have there (and only there), which is somewhat comparable, actually, if you disregard the “but meta is short for metastasis, actually” bit.
Which one of the two it ends up being is between you and your contacts.