They are now actively forcing people to switch to those from the older non-native app. WhatsApp released apps for both Windows and MacOS that were made exclusively for those operating systems. You don’t have to do that my friend, the native WhatsApp Desktop app is optimised and a joy to use. That’s why many people still don’t want to use the desktop app, preferring to use WhatsApp Web instead. You felt it the most when using low-powered PCs. That’s what happens when an app is not developed with a particular OS in mind.
It demanded too much RAM and computing power and could be unstable. That was good enough for a while but I’m sure many of you that used that particular app know that it was a resource hog. Since it was basically just a browser app it worked on both Windows and MacOS. WhatsApp simply repurposed code from the browser application and made an app. The first desktop app was introduced years ago and it was not a native app.
That’s not counting the WhatsApp Web from the browser option. Some may not have known this but there were actually 2 different WhatsApp desktop applications. The sun has set on one WhatsApp desktop application.
