Without mentioning any specific date of the launch, the company asserted that the feature will be available in the country in the coming weeks.

The number of accounts banned by WhatsApp in September was 15% higher than the accounts that were banned in August. 

The Meta-owned platform had encountered an unanticipated technical outage and the users have complained that they can't send or receive messages.

If the mandate is passed into law, Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp will be required to identify users of their services using a verifiable method of identification.

WhatsApp has banned over 19 lakh Indian accounts in the month of May, following a similar curb that was imposed on 16.6 lakh accounts in April.

These features will be functional to the users of both iOS and Android, who have installed the latest version of the application.

With the view to augmenting user security, WhatsApp has released a new update where users might get another tier of security. 

In the midst of the prevailing digitization in hearings in the Indian courts, the Madras High Court has turned heads by conducting a hearing of a case through WhatsApp for the first time.

As the sequel of the outage, the trio of social media giants had relied on Twitter to update the users about the technical glitch and the progress made to fix it.

WhatsApp had recommended its users to update their device or its operating system till the date to continue using the app's services.