{"id":335503,"date":"2026-03-18T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/335503\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:47:09","slug":"whatsapp-is-now-officially-available-on-garmin-smartwatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/335503\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp is now officially available on Garmin smartwatches"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an official WhatsApp app for select Garmin smartwatches<\/a>. It’s available for free right now in the Garmin Connect IQ Store. WhatsApp is primarily a chat platform, so this new app allows users to read and reply to messages, send emojis and peruse the chat history.<\/p>\n

The app also lets users accept or decline incoming calls arriving from the platform, all without having to break out the smartphone. This is WhatsApp, so messages are end-to-end encrypted.<\/p>\n

As previously mentioned, it’s not available for every Garmin watch. It’s compatible with select Forerunner, Venu, Vivoactive and Fenix watches. The Connect IQ Store should be able to say if your particular model can handle the app.<\/p>\n

This is just the latest smartwatch platform to get WhatsApp. Meta released an Apple Watch version<\/a> at the tail-end of last year. Before that, Apple Watch users had to mirror iPhone notifications to reply to WhatsApp messages directly from the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There’s an official WhatsApp app for select Garmin smartwatches. It’s available for free right now in the Garmin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[356,1799,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-335503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-garmin","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}