JioPhone users can finally install WhatsApp: Here's how

Reliance Jio promised that eventually, the Jio Phone will be getting support for the most popular cross-platform messaging application, WhatsApp. Now the application is finally available for KaiOS running on the Jio Phone. The company has started the rollout and should be available for all the smartphones by September 20.

If you have a Jio Phone or a Jio Phone 2 and you are interested to check out WhatsApp on the feature phone, follow these steps

• Open the app drawer by pressing the menu key
• Open up the Jio Store
• Find WhatsApp in the listing. You can also search for the app
• Once you find the hip just hit Install
• WhatsApp will be added to the list of your apps and from there you can launch the application
• Open WhatsApp and go through the quick setup process

Also Read: How to send a WhatsApp message without saving the phone number

Just like other platforms, WhatsApp for JioPhone will also have end-to-end encryption so that you can safely chat with your friends. However, chatting is not going to be quite easy for Jio Phone users on the T9 keyboard while the Jio Phone 2 users can take full advantage of the full QWERTY keyboard.

Apart from sending text messages, users can send and receive voice notes, images and other media content. However, as of now WhatsApp for JioPhone does not support voice or video calls and does not allow users to make UPI payments from the application.