Two years ago I wrote an article about things WhatsApp can improve in the future. Things like video calls have been introduced, documents like PDF can be sent, but there are many things I'd like to see different.
Starting with the way the account is used: The ID for the login is basically phone number from your SIM card. Therefore in situations when you lose your SIM card, switch to a phone with another SIM card format (especially on travels) and/or a phone broke down, it's getting complicated to use your previous account.
And even if when you need to use a new phone number, but with the same Google account there's no way to use a backup from your GoogleDrive since its connected to another phone number.
Especially that case could have been solved way easier. They could introduce an option giving your Google account or your email address as an secondary login option. Or is that too risky for being misused since the SIM card is a safer option of course (but it looks different if the phone gets stolen...).
It's definitely something which could be worked on since it's it would make the app more flexibel.
Speaking of 'more flexibel', the database export could be better. There are third-party applications making a proper export and not just a text file.
Speaking of 'more flexibel', the database export could be better. There are third-party applications making a proper export and not just a text file.
I remember the MyPhoneExplorer which could make short message exports nicely as an HTML file. I don't see why WhatsApp could offer something like that themselves.
Anyway, let's see what happens in the future and if they are going to add some features making certain things easier...
