WhatsApp on Windows 11 Reverts to WebView Wrapper with High RAM Usage
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Summary
Meta has transitioned WhatsApp on Windows 11 from a native UWP application to a WebView2 wrapper that loads web.whatsapp.com, resulting in significantly worse performance with the app now consuming 1-2GB of RAM constantly. This represents a regression from the previous native app that had been developed over years, moving WhatsApp back to being a web wrapper after it had evolved from Electron to UWP.
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This means WhatsApp on Windows 11 is cooked, and it's back to being absolute garbage in terms of performance.
WhatsApp is one of those Windows apps that went from being a web wrapper to a native app and then back to the web again after all these years of investment.
WhatsApp for Windows was originally an Electron app, and it was eventually replaced with UWP after years of investment.
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