It’s clearly capable of showing me the image that has come through on a message. Sometimes the image comes through blurry. Why?
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That’s because WhatsApp is in no way programmed to work on Apple watch.
The notification you see on your watch is mirrored from the notification on your iPhone lockscreen. That includes the very small preview if there is a photo attached. That’s what gets transferred to and displayed on the watch, just larger and thus blurry.
There’s a 3rd party WhatsApp that does work but it’s intermittent, the name of the app escapes me tho
WatchChat 2
Name of the alternative is watchchat
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A limitation of the WhatsApp app.
Only Facebook/Meta can resolve that, but they have little interest in doing so.
They have no interest in doing so
This is obvious seeing that Messenger preview appears sharp.
If you’d like to see the images sent by friends, ask them to use iMessage with you. Apple Watch can show these :) there’s just no way of a workaround for WhatsApp images for now.
That’s not very helpful if they don’t have any Apple devices.
WatchChat2 allows images and videos to be seen. And can chat to the top 5 recent in your WhatsApp.
Probably more likely for privacy. Imagine your friend sends one of those prank photos and you are in a work meeting and people see your watch when you go to check it.
If that was the case then clicking on it should make it visible but it won’t
Its funny since the facebook messenger photos show up without any issues …. Same company…. Probably same dev team to…
Facebook messenger monetises the data it gets from everything you do in it. WhatsApp doesn’t, so Meta has no interest in investing in it.
Facebook messenger monetises the data it gets from everything you do in it. WhatsApp doesn’t
for now
Didn’t Zuckerberg want to merge all the messaging apps together? Don’t really know how that goes, i wonder if they just don’t put as much resource in WhatsApp now and wait for the merge.
https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/30/facebook-combine-messenger-instagram-whatsapp/
That’s very funny to me since messenger app can no longer be added to the watch
I always thought that was a privacy feature.
Hey thats how I see without glasses!
Yeah it does this on my watch too! Stickers show up but not pictures
Somone send your something rude you’re screwed lol
They want you to open WhatsApp on phone to receive more data from you. Geo location and stuff like that.
I use WatchApp for WhatsApp on mw AW.
The free version allows you to open the last 5 chats, you can also send voice message and see the pictures.
Same with WatchChat 2. Can see all the images and videos too
Yes
Another reason to not use WhatsApp garbage
Imagine thinking whatsapp is garbage 😂🤦🏽♀️
Because Meta is a bullshit company.