WeChat is best known as China's all-purpose "super-app." It is used for everything from messaging and mobile payments to shopping and government services. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Apple has approved an update to WeChat for the upcoming iPhone 16, signaling a potential thaw in relations between the tech giant and Tencent, the Chinese company behind the massively popular ...

Tencent's WeChat app is indispensable for people in China. It has 1.4 billion monthly users and is the main messaging service in the country. But it is more than just a way to chat with friends and ...

The Chinese tech giant Alibaba has confirmed that it finally plans to integrate the digital payment service WeChat Pay into its flagship e-commerce platforms, bringing to an end a decadelong cold war ...

More than 500 million active users play games in China’s super app WeChat on a monthly basis, the company has said, an eye-catching figure that demonstrates the channel’s potential as a driver of ...

HarmonyOS NEXT (HarmonyOS 5.0) is the largest upgrade to the HarmonyOS system since its debut in 2019. Credit: Huawei The HarmonyOS version of WeChat, built on an independent architecture separate ...

As part of its efforts to further invest in the Chinese market, Apple announced this week that it’s bringing its Apple Developer service to China’s WeChat app. The service includes news, announcements ...

TL;DR: WeChat messages and conversations are not encrypted end-to-end, meaning the app's servers can decrypt and read every message. However, users of the popular messaging app might be concerned to ...

WeChat, China’s hot chat app — with around 600 million users — today rolled out group video calling for up to nine people, on iOS. The update comes just weeks after WeChat introduced video calling on ...