WhatsApp is the largest and most popular text application on the planet. There are tons of things that we used to do on a daily basis.
We need a medium to stay connected with our loved ones.
WhatsApp helps us to stay connected with our friends and family. It’s a simple text message application on the planet.
If you want to use this application then make sure to download it from AppStore or PlayStore.
Once the application is downloaded you need to open the application and create a free account.
Once the account is created you can start using the application. You can send and receive text-based messages.
You can share the media files like images and videos with your friends and family.
You can share the documents, you can share the location, you can do audio and video calls, etc. Now WhatsApp comes with a lot of features, you can do a lot of things on the application.
If you have tons of friends and family members and want to stay connected with them then you can consider creating a WhatsApp group or broadcast list and can share the messages inside the groups or broadcast list as well.
There are tons of other things you can explore on WhatsApp. Now the main question, is these WhatsApp group features are more than enough for our daily use?
Should we need more extra features instead of that?
Yes, of course, we want something extra. In this article, I’m gonna talk about a moded application called GBWhatsApp.
It’s an unofficial version of the WhatsApp application.
You can simply download it in APK form on your device and can start using this application.
It’s not available in any store, you need to download this application from another third-party application and need to install it UNSECURELY on your device.
Yes, you heard it right, you need to install it UNSECURELY. You need to enable privacy settings and checkmark the UNKNOWN SOURCE option.
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Once you’ll enable the UNKNOWN source option it can be easily installed on your device.
In this article, I’m going to break down some of the pros and cons of this application and will let you know how safe this application is.
There are tons of content I saw on the internet, some are fake, and some are good, but still, this content may not be enough to make the right decision.
In this article, I’ll deep dive into the details of everything you need to know about the application and how we can stay safe in terms of privacy as well.
Even I wrote an article about GBWhatsApp. Well, GBWhatsApp is a third-party application and not a part of the official WhatsApp or Facebook family.
GBWhatsApp was developed by a third person and it’s not an official resource of the Facebook company.
These are the points we gonna discuss GBWhatsApp:
1. What is GBWhatsApp?
2. What extra feature do you see on the APK?
3. What are the pros and cons of the application?
4. How it can damage your privacy?
These are the main objectives that we need to clear in our further discussion. Let’s fasten our seat belts and deep dive into the details of the GBWhatsApp application.
Make sure to read the article till the end. If you have any questions or suggestions please mention them in the comments down below.
1. What is GBWhatsApp?
As you can see on the internet there are billions of resources for getting knowledge and stuff. In this digital era, everything is online, which means when you need to know something or want to do anything then you pick your digital device and start surfing the internet.
WhatsApp is the most popular application used by billions of people on the internet. Almost 2 billion people use the application. You can imagine the database.
The Internet is the place where you can create exact replicas of everything and start promoting with your own trademark.
Same as it is WhatsApp. WhatsApp has tons of exact same replica that provides the same features and functionality.
GBWahtsApp is one of those replicas. It’s just a duplicate of the WhatsApp application.
GBWhatsApp provides you with extra functionality that you won’t be able to see on WhatsApp itself. In my further discussion, I’ll talk about the functionality part of the GBWhatsApp.
You can also say that GBWhatsApp is a copy of the original WhatsApp but with some extra features.
If you want to use the GBWhatsApp then you need to search for the application on the internet because you won’t be able to find this application on the PlayStore or AppStore.
You need to download its APK file from the internet. Once you’ll get the APK file now you need to install the application.
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Here are the steps for installing the application:
1. Make sure to download the APK file from the internet, Once the file you’ll get make sure to install it on your device.
2. Before installing the APK, you need to give access to the UNKNOWN SOURCE. This setting you’ll find in your phone settings.
3. Once the setting is enabled you can install the APK on your device and can start using the GBWhatsApp application.
2. What extra feature you’ll see on the APK?
Now come to the second question What extra feature do you see on the application?
Well, this question can be answered by simple points as mentioned below. Make sure to read it carefully. There are tons of extra features you can figure out on your GBWahtsApp application.
1. The first and most important feature of the GBWhatsApp is that you won’t be banned if you violate the terms and conditions by sending the same message again and again to the same user.
No matter how many people report to your WhatsApp account, your account won’t be terminated.
2. On the top of the GBWhatsApp application, you’ll find the WIFI type icon When you’ll click on that it’ll ask you to take DND.
When you hit the DND option means you won’t receive the messages even if you have internet access.
3. You can change your boring green color WhatsApp theme and choose a different theme.
There are tons of different options, so make sure to choose the best-suited option for you.
4. You can hide your online status and can secretly send messages.
When you click on the three dots you’ll find at the top, you’ll find the privacy option.
Make sure to click on that.
Once you click over there, you’ll find tons of different options.
Make sure to click on the online status, When you click on that you can hide the online status of your WhatsApp application.
Make sure to use this feature if you want to hide your online status.
5. Just like normal WhatsApp, you can hide the blue tick when someone sends you a text message you can secretly view the messages and the person won’t get notified that you have seen their messages.
6. You can even hide the second tick as well.
When someone sends you a text message they won’t get notified whether you have delivered their messages or not.
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7. Hide the blue microphone. You can hide the blue microphone as well.
When someone sends you a voice note even if you have listened to their voice messages they won’t get notified that you had listened to their voice note.
8. You can hide the status as well.
When you’ll try to view someone’s WhatsApp status then they won’t be able to notify you that you view their status.
9. You can disable your anti-revoke option.
This means someone won’t be able to revoke their messages once you’ll send them to anyone.
10. You can hide the writing status.
When someone tries to view your status they won’t be able to see the status because you already hide it.
11. You can hide the recording status.
This means when you’ll try to record something they won’t notify you that you want to record something and want to send them.
12. You can send media files up to 50 MB.
In normal WhatsApp, you can’t send a media file of more than 15 MB but in GBWhatsApp you can send a media file of more than 15 MB and you can send the file up to 50 MB.
13. You can also enhance the status limit as well. You can increase the length of the status limit by up to 7 minutes.
14. GBWhatsApp provides you log facility, which means you can view all the information about your phone contacts and can navigate when they were last online, what they texted you, etc., and many more.
You can view all the information about your WhatsApp account.
15. You can change your fonts. Sometimes you may get bored of your original WhatsApp fonts and now you want to change your fonts then you can also do that.
You can change the font settings and can enhance the creativity of your WhatsApp fonts.
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16. You can also change the pattern of your launcher icon as well.
Sometimes you may get bored by your original WhatsApp icon.
Now here is the option, you can change it as well.
Make sure to enhance your creativity by changing the GBWhatsApp icon.
17. You can also change the style of the tick as well.
When someone sees your messages you can select which type of tick you want to see.
There are tons of different options, make sure to choose the relevant one for you.
18. You have one more great option, you can simply hide the notification as well.
Sometimes you may need to hide the notification. When you’ll enable the hide notification option you won’t be able to view the notification.
19. There is one more option for you. You can enable the option of notifying someone when someone is online. When you’ll enable it you’ll get notified when someone will be online.
20. Do you have tons of WhatsApp groups and want to share something on all of your WhatsApp groups?
There is an option called group broadcast.
With the help of this amazing feature, you can easily broadcast your messages on your WhatsApp groups. Make sure to use this feature if you want to share something with all of your groups at once.
and many more.
These are some of the core features of the GBWhatsApp you’ll not get in the original WhatsApp application.
Technically, if I’m talking about the original WhatsApp, you can use it and it’s safe but technically if I’m talking about the GBWhatsApp then there will always be a question mark.
Now in our further discussion, we’ll figure out some of the core reasons you won’t use the GBWhatsApp and what the pros and cons would be.
3. What are the pros and cons of the application?
Let’s divide this session into two categories. In my first one, I’ll talk about the pros, and in my second one, we’ll discuss the cons let’s start.
What are the pros of using the GBWhatsApp?
As I already covered a lot of things about the GBWhatsApp, I hope you’ll read them all.
I already explained all the extra features you’ll get on your GBWhatsApp application you won’t get on your original WhatsApp application.
There are multiple features you’ll get and all these features are free to use.
This means you won’t give a single penny for that.
If you want to explore more on your WhatsApp application then you should consider using the modded version of the WhatsApp application.
You can do a lot of things on your GBWhatsApp application.
I want to give you a real scenario with my friend. I was texting one of my friends, he just installed the GBWhatsApp application.
I was secretly watching his profile when he suddenly replied, Hey bro! you have just checked my WhatsApp profile, and then I ask him, How did you get that?
Then he told me about the GBWhatsApp application.
I personally not promoting the application because it’s an unofficial version of the original WhatsApp application but still, if you want to use then there are some precautions you should take care of.
- Make sure not to share your personal information on your GBWhatsApp application and not keep any personal information on your device like any personal images, videos, contacts, bank details, etc. These data may be compromised.
- Make sure to use it for a short time, Once you’re bored, please delete the application and delete the cache and history from your device.
- Never use the phone number you already registered for your WhatsApp account because your original WhatsApp may terminate the account.
- If you want to use it then make sure to use it just for fun and never ever use it for official purposes because these modded apps are not good for official purposes.
These are some basic pros you should take care of. Now move forward and discuss more in-depth the application.
Cons of the GBWhatsApp application?
1. The first and major con of using this application is it’s not available on PlayStore, which means you won’t be able to find the application on PlayStore.
This means it’s an unofficial application and it’s not related to WhatsApp itself.
2. You don’t have any idea about the company, author of this application, sever of the application, from where this application operates, etc.
If you don’t have any idea then why are you using this application?
It can spy on your data fetch your basic information from your device and sell it to third-party companies.
3. It can contain viruses and spam files that can damage your smartphone as well.
Make sure to avoid the modded versions of the application these applications are not safe for use.
4. Your original WhatsApp application may be banned or terminated your account because you’re using the unofficial version of the application and WhatsApp is not responsible for that.
5. GBWhatsApp you’ll not find on the official PlayStore because it’s a clone application and the original rights have WhatsApp only.
GBWhatsApp can harm your privacy that’s why Google officially kicked off the GBWhatsApp from its PlayStore.
These are the possible reasons you should avoid using GBWhatsApp.
It can’t even harm the privacy of your mobile device it can do a lot of things on your device.
It can track your location and lots of other stuff.
It can steal your private passwords and a bank account that may later become a hack.
Make sure about these points.
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4. How it can damage your privacy?
I already covered a lot of things about the application.
It can easily install some malicious viruses that can harm your privacy and can steal your information about your friends and family as well.
It’s not an official application and there are not any terms and conditions as well.
Make sure it’s not even a company and doesn’t even have a website or official website Then where you’ll complain if there will be an issue?
Do you have any answers? No, right? Make sure to avoid these modded applications.
If you want to explore something more on your WhatsApp application then instead of GBWhatsApp you can use WhatsApp for business applications.
It’s officially developed by Facebook itself and you can use this application.
This application has its own terms and conditions, make sure to use this application.
Using this application is pretty easy, you just need to install the application from PlayStore or AppStore, After installing the application you need to register with your new number.
Make sure, you can run a single WhatsApp on a single number, you can’t use two WhatsApp on a single number.
If you want to use WhatsApp for business on your device then make sure to use it on your second number and use a dual sim device.
Bottom lines:
I hope you enjoyed the article about the safety concerns of the modded GBWhatsApp application.
Make sure to avoid this application, still, if you want to use then you can use it on your device just for fun and not permanently.
These applications can be banned from the internet and you won’t be able to find these applications once banned and your all data and chats may be lost.
It is also possible that you won’t use the WhatsApp application on the same number anymore.
Make sure to avoid such things be authentic and use real WhatsApp.
If you have any questions or suggestions make sure to mention them in the comments down below.