WhatsApp to become an annual subcription-based app for iOS users

Messaging services WhatsApp is to become an annual subscription-based service for Apple's iOS users sometime this year. Presently, iOS users need only pay a one-off payment of USS0.99 (RM3).

However, under the new proposed model WhatsApp users will get the service free for the first year and then they will be charged US$1 (RM3) annually.

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