WhatsApp first launched for iPhone in August 2009, with the app known as WhatsApp 2.0 on the App Store.

Quick Scoop

  • The company was incorporated earlier that year, on 4 February 2009, by Jan Koum in California.
  • The first public release that people generally think of as “WhatsApp launching” was the iPhone version in August 2009.
  • Support for Android followed in August 2010, which helped it spread rapidly beyond early iPhone users.

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