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To get rid of any issues, EU will give a staggered deadline in the final agreement that will provide companies a chance to implement various levels of interoperability over time.WhatsApp being 100% free furthered their popularity. In such a situation, offering interoperability while maintaining the encryption is going to be a challenging task. Especially since all the popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and others are using some form of encryption. If this does end up happening, companies like Meta and Apple will have to open up their messaging ecosystems and while it would benefit a lot of users as well as other small messaging platforms, it could end up raising a lot of privacy issues. However, the one thing that is not clear is if the law will also force the major messaging apps to work together, which basically means allowing the users to send messages from one app to the other. As regards interoperability obligation for social networks, co-legislators agreed that such interoperability provisions will be assessed in the future.”īased on the statement above, it is very evident that the EU wants the popular messaging services to offer interoperability with other, smaller messaging apps. Users of small or big platforms would then be able to exchange messages, send files or make video calls across messaging apps, thus giving them more choice.

“During a close to 8-hour long trilogue (three-way talks between Parliament, Council and Commission), EU lawmakers agreed that the largest messaging services (such as Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger or iMessage) will have to open up and interoperate with smaller messaging platforms, if they so request. Here is the EU press release regarding the interoperability of famous apps like WhatsApp, iMessage, and Messenger. WhatsApp and Other Message Apps Might Soon Have Interoperability But at What Cost?