WhatsApp for Android updated with permissions to Facebook

New update of the beta version of WhatsApp for Android, only available from Google Play. This is version 2.16.86, an update where we will not find big changes, although a notification will now appear when we are connected to the WhatsApp web client, as you can see in the screenshot. In addition, new lines of code indicate that the application will begin to ask permission to share information of our WhatsApp account with Facebook to keep up with advertising and products on Facebook.

Internally in this new update of WhatsApp for Android, compared to the previous version 2.16.85, its installation file APK has increased by only 13 KB, without adding or deleting any files, but with 82 modified files, where we can find the files introduced recently to invite via a link.

How to download the Beta version of WhatsApp for Android

We remind you that this Beta version to download from Google Play before you have to become beta testers. It’s really simple, besides, we can stop being beta tester also very easily and receive updates only stable application. Please remember that if you want to become a beta tester of the application from Google Play, you have all the information here.

Remind you that the beta versions of the application are not exempt from errors, its installation can cause unexpected errors, even when installing the application will see messages that warn us, but as a rule the beta version of WhatsApp for Android never gives problems and we will have the latest news before than the stable version of Google Play.