WhatsApp News: WhatsApp keeps releasing new features for users from time to time. In the past few days, many great features have been introduced on WhatsApp. Meanwhile, the company has decided to bring a new update for Mac. In this, Mac’s Electron based WhatsApp desktop app will be replaced with a new native app – Catalyst. This has been revealed in a report by WABetaInfo.
Revealed in WABetaInfo report
According to the report of WABetaInfo, the old app will stop working after 54 days. The company has also started informing the users through notifications. WABetaInfo has shared a screenshot of this on X, in which it can be seen that the company is notifying users that the Electron app on Mac will not work after 54 days. To use WhatsApp on Mac desktop, users will have to switch to the new Catalyst App. The data of chats or contact list will be saved when switching to the new app. Let us tell you that Electron App allows the developer to easily create apps that work on multiple operating systems from a single codebase.
WhatsApp announced the deprecation of the Electron app for Mac!
WhatsApp has announced the deprecation of the Electron-based Desktop application on Mac, prompting users to switch to the native app to ensure a more optimized experience.https://t.co/2PyujAuNfr pic.twitter.com/DrUO8cPVFA
— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) September 4, 2024
Users will get better performance and security
Let us tell you that the Catalyst app will offer better performance and security to the users. In this, users will get to see Mac OS features. At the same time, the company will also upgrade this app in the coming time. According to the report, by the end of October the app with Electron framework will stop working and users will have to download the Catalyst desktop app for Mac from the WhatsApp website.
