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Regarding instant messaging applications, WhatsApp leads the market with more than two billion users.
Currently, the Meta platform is located in the fourth position of the most downloaded apps of 2022.
Today, 35 billion mobile apps have been downloaded from both the Apple App Store and Google Play.
It seems that WhatsApp, the social network owned by Meta, plans to introduce a password option for its web or desktop version.
Over the years, WhatsApp It has been positioning itself in the taste of users in such a way that, at present, it has become the most popular instant messaging service in the world.
In 2020, the year of the pandemic, the social network owned by Meta (formerly Facebook) managed to exceed two billion users globallywhich means that of the seven thousand 800 million inhabitants that there are, approximately, on the planet, more than two billion use the WhatsApp messaging service at least once a month.
Under this point, although we are talking about the leading platform in its field, reality dictates that its competition is also gaining wide popularity. In case of Telegram is the most recognized, the social network that in June of this year reached 700 million registered usersaccording to what he said in a statement.
On the other hand, information from Sensor Tower reveals that, currently, WhatsApp occupies the fourth position in the ranking of the most downloaded apps so far in 2022, in a context in which, according to what was expressed by the study Q2 2022: Store Intelligence Data Digest35 billion mobile apps have been downloaded from both the Apple App Store and Google Play.
As of today, the platform is constantly updated, either by creating new functions, redesigning existing ones, or even carrying out positioning strategies.
WhatsApp will require a password in its web version
As time progresses, reality dictates that, for social networks, it is vital to stay updated in order not to lose users and, in a way, that is what has been happening with WhatsApp for some time.
Now, as part of this series of updates to the Meta platform, a new function seems to be working so that WhatsApp users can protect their account in the web versionwhich is why a function to place a password is being developed.
The information, as often happens, comes from WABetaInfothe site that has become the space where everything that is worked on from within WhatsApp is made known.
It should be noted that said password or security PIN would be for a single use only.which means that there is no need to remember it, because every time you log in to the web, said pin will be arriving to your cell phone once you access it as you normally do.
Undoubtedly, WhatsApp seeks to reach more users and, with this, continue to lead a market that is growing day by day and is becoming established in an era that has a greater number of Internet users.
In that sense, Telegram is becoming more and more established as a platform or social network for instant messagingwithout forgetting that the competition with WhatsApp is extremely complicated.