XChat, the standalone app for gaining access to X’s messaging characteristic, is to be had to obtain now for iOS. X first instructed it will be stripping direct messaging from X in 2025, however a minimum of for now, XChat is to be had within the authentic X app, the internet and this new app.
According to its release video, the brand new XChat app gives lots of the parts of recent messaging X had already offered to its chats characteristic, like the facility to delete and edit messages, block screenshots and ship disappearing messages. The brand new XChat app additionally helps video and audio calls, and X claims that every one messages despatched with XChat are end-to-end encrypted.
XChat can also be anticipated to be the house of any teams that shaped round X’s Communities characteristic. The social platform not too long ago introduced that it was once retiring Communities on the finish of Would possibly, and instructed that XChat’s strengthen for higher workforce chats can be a profitable selection. XChat’s workforce chats can these days have 350 members, however X plans to enlarge that quantity sooner or later.
Elon Musk’s authentic pitch after he rebranded Twitter as X, was once to show the platform into an “the whole thing app,” the place such things as an algorithmic feed, messaging, activity forums or even bills may just exist side-by-side. A standalone messaging app turns out like the complete opposite of that, nevertheless it may also mirror the place X unearths itself in 2026. The corporate is now a subsidiary of xAI, and xAI itself is a part of SpaceX. Musk’s push into AI seems to be the going worry, and cloning one thing like WeChat may simply be much less essential.
