WeChat App Reviews

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Can we get the dark mode theme soon?. I really like this app and I’ve been using it for 6 or 7 years now. It’s really easy to use and it has a lot useful features. However, I really would like a dark mode theme so that when I use the app at night , it wouldn’t be that bright. Also, I am wondering if we can customize the chat bubble color, I mean the green is fine and it is the iconic color of wechat, but if we can have the option to customize it, that will be great. It doesn’t have to be really fancy, just some simple basic colors that will be fine. And thank you for making this app great!

Wow , flash back to the turn of the century, and aol chat rooms. This is a pretty cool app, it’s not corrupt and bombarded with fake or dead accounts catfishers or people playing head games. In fact this app does monitor for bad seeds, or people introducing themselves to me , and two minutes later I’m now addressed as “love” and with no shame at all and in the same sentence, try to hustle me to send or wire them some money so their phone doesn’t get cut off. Wheather I figure it out or not, that’s how easy it is to get taxed. I’m sure a lot of dumb lonely fools fall hard for it. Anyhow, I’ve already been talking to someone within my first few minutes of joining, and and as long as I don’t become unbearably stupid all of a sudden, the brains of some (most) of them is in retrograde, they are dumb as a shack of dirt, all in all 5 stars and 3 thumbs up!

Why. I don’t understand why they decided to make it so that you can’t connect things like you email to your account from a device other than your phone, this has caused me several problems as I can’t log into my account from my phone as I got a new one recently and had my phone number changed and completely forgot my password this part was on me and I will admit I am partially at fault as I didn’t take the proper precautions before, but I thought it would be no big deal as I can just connect my email to the account from my ipad to login as I was still signed into the account on there, now I’m just left disappointed and annoyed as I can’t reset the password to my account or connect my email. I honestly think this should be changed as it makes no sense for me not to be able to connect my email from my ipad or other devices other than my phone.

Terrible on iPad simultaneous login. This review is strictly on wechat for iPad. I love wechat on phones. However, since I use it both on phone and iPad, I found the iPad chat functionality extremely unpredictable. Only fewer than 1/3 of the chats show up on iPad. If I don’t look at my phone, I won’t even know how many messages are missing. If I’m on the iPad when a chat message comes in, iPad will show the notification at the top. If I click on the notification, it doesn’t take me to the chat and that message will not show up in the chat. I can’t figure out a pattern of when a chat message will show on the iPad. The only consistent time is probably when I’m actively chatting with someone, then I get all messages in this particular chat on iPad. But not for other chats. Please fix this!

Broke a Working Function; Horrible New Interface. Not all of my subscriptions are equally pressing for me to read, so now I have this cumbersome extra step of having to click on the dropdown menu in order to get to the old view of my subscriptions in order to see which ones I currently want to look at. Maybe the subscriptions message folder is useful for some people, but now it just makes me not want to use subscriptions. At least make it optional, or give us the choice of whether to view the old view or the messages view first please. As for the new interface it is way too white, and there is not enough contrast. The update says it’s supposed to be more intuitive and easier to use but now it’s actually harder to navigate because of the color scheme used for all the sections. Also, there is so much wasted space in the margins around messages and text, and everything looks so spaced out (not condensed) which is frustrating. DO NOT UPDATE.

Losing the ability to actually help. Created a new account last night. Added family members as friends. Noticed it got blocked this morning. Followed the steps to unblock it, requested help from family and friends. Nothing worked. I sent requests to 3 of my family members, which 2 of them for sure didn’t work due to phone numbers being in a different country. What disappointed me the most, was my mother’s, my MOTHER’S phone number. It’s the exact same region as mine! But what did your team say to my mom? “You have already reached the limit of times of helping friends unblock their accounts.” And then second time, “You do not meet the requirements to unblock this account.” After those three accounts, I tried to request it one more time, but it kept on stalling to load the option, it didn’t want to load again. I also like to ask, What in the world type of suspicious activity did my account end up doing? All the agreements were secure, and the app itself doesn’t agree with it? This is a complete disappointment! I’m not the only one experiencing this. Look at the older reviews written this year. Many new users out there are complaining about the same situation. You’re going further away from 5 stars. Please fix this issue before more negative ratings come.

UNTRUSTWORTHY NEWS IN THE APP. I am a second generation Chinese American. During the Coronavirus pandemic and the recent looting, Wechat served as a platform of giving away misleading news to the Chinese community. The information presented on Wechat news are exaggerated with the purpose of gaining views from its readers. With the inaccurate information, the Asian (specifically Chinese) who use Wechat as their main information provider are put in the state of anxiety and terror. My mother also fell victim to Wechat’s news. Other second generation Chinese Americans can probably relate to me. Due to the misleading information on the app, many of our parents were convinced to buy guns. There should be an authority figure to monitor the news that app users post to guarantee the authenticity of the information.

ABSOLUTELY REDICULOUS REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT??. This Apps registration requirement is just mind boggling? I have NO problem whatsoever providing a phone number like so many Apps need nowadays...usually you give your number to a trustworthy developer to verify your a real person and they file with the other thousands of users Ph numbers and thats it, no big deal. But for “We Chat” they actually require you to some how randomly contact another user, who is a COMPLETE stranger from who knows were, and ask them to help you finish the registration process? Are you out of your minds? Your crazy and it blows my mind to think other users gave there actual Ph number to a total stranger who could be a hacker...a identity thief...convicted felon....killer...rapist or even worse? HOW CAN THEY EXPECT YOU TO DO SOMETHING SO DANGEROUS for such a common App that doesnt even look that promising or special? Its just SO wreckless and unacceptable and to know that there is even 1 person out that complied is by far 1 person to many? And if something does go wrong and a user is harmed in ANY way, WeChat developers should be be most definitely held responsible for causing it.....NO APP IS WORTH PUTTING YOURSELF IN HARMS WAY PEOPLE? WOW?

Group chat tab please!!!. WeChat is a fundamental part of life in China, as are WeChat groups. There’s a group for everything!! That being said your chats seem to be polluted by a constant inflow of group messages, even if you’ve silenced the group chat it automatically goes to the top of the chat list when there are new messages and other conversations get pushed down causing you to miss messages. I really do wish that there was tabs for chats and groups and both tabs had the sticky on top function so that even on the group tab you could have your work group on top. This would make WeChat so much more functional as a work and social tool.

Serious privacy concerns. It’s no wonder that they’re still not using end-to-end chat encryption or 2FA for user account security. This app is basically used by the authorities (tankies) to track user activity, posts, comments, location and even sensitive information to monitor users who may have said or done something inappropriate with regards to their disciplinary actions (if you can catch my drift). There’s some evidence of data leak which shows that WeChat is being used by the authorities to track users down to collect information on their Covid status via their location and app usage records. I would ONLY use this app because its the only widely used service in Mainland China. But be careful over what you share with others in your chats because they watch your content for “inappropriate” stuff.

Blocked accounts no problem. It’s literally the best social media app I’ve used!! Some features I love: message and post translation, deviralization of posts, levels of privacy settings of your posts, invisibility of your comments and likes of your friends’ posts from their friends who you aren’t friends with which also makes your posts’ like counts visible to only you, making stickers with your own pics or vids, easy voice message usage, really high quality video calls (much better than messengers). Most of the low ratings say their accounts got blocked. Actually, the reason of its tough security is that it has many functionalities, such as credit card deposit, wire transfer, scan payment... For those who get blocked: 1. You could set up security accounts (in advance!) so that those friends can easily verify for you; 2. Sometimes you need to have your friends sent verification codes to your wechat, which never failed on me once, so I’m not sure why some reviews couldn’t figure it out; 3. Sometimes it makes you choose your actual wechat friends from a bunch of random accounts which is really easy.

Completely Awesome!. This app is awesome, and there’s nothing wrong with it. You can play almost all the games in the world on it, talk to your friends and family, as well as call them. You can also use it like PayPal, and you can post a lot thing so all of your friends can see. I know a lot of the reviews are saying their account was blocked for no reason, but that’s not true. You might’ve been blocked for saying something that’s political related in China or something. They keep a closer watch on those people who doesn’t have chinese phone numbers. Or sometimes they block your account when they see that you have a different phone number that’s not from China. I hope this helps you guys. :D

CN Government randomly blocks users registered with foreign phone number. Compared to telegram, this app is just too large in size and slow in function. Also, you are under surveillance when you are using it. Might not be a problem for a user for non-Chinese users since you may never go to China anyway. For my Chinese friends, they are having a hard time with it. Police might find you when they monitored you saying something they don’t want to hear. Also, FOREIGN NUMBERS GET BANNED FOR NO REASON. Registered successfully somehow but got banned the next day, same thing happened when I switched to my second phone number. When I was registering with my third number (about 10 months later on another device), I am not allowed to register. And finally I’m here leaving a comment…:(

A feature I would like to see in Wechat. Wechat is a good product. It’s very easy to use. Some of my relatives in their 80s are using Wechat on daily basis. One feature I have been wishing for is to allow a user to blacklist certain people in same Wechat group. One trouble I am experiencing is that there are members in a group keep posting disturbing info. I do not want to quit the group (could be a family group or a high school classmate group) just because one or couple of person. I don’t want to argue with them either. I wish there is a feature allowing me to make posts from these folks invisible to me, unless they directly address me.

Must press space!?!. WeChat is very good and easy to use, however, when I type a message to my friend, I want to change change a line to make it clearer for my friend to see. But everytime, there's no change line button, at that place, there said send instead of enter (change line). Then, some time later, I figure out that you need to press space until it's end of the line then type. It's very tiring for me and sometimes, one message contains 113 spaces just for changing my line, I was so tired at that time so please replace the send button to a enter button instead. And the send button can be beside the ··· button. Thanks! I hope this change in the future!

Used to love but Customer Support is horrible. I have friends that live in various parts of the world and I loved using this app to communicate with them. I went on a trip to visit said friends, resulting in no need for use of the app since I was there, in person with them. My account goes inactive since I wasn’t using it for a few weeks and when I come back to sign on, it gives me an error message saying my account may have been “hijacked” or disabled for inactivity and I have to get another user to unblock my account. It gives me instructions on how the friend can unblock me so I find an alternative way to communicate with them to do so, but when they follow the given steps, it does not work. I have submitted multiple support tickets for MONTHS for help resolving this and no one has gotten back to me. Not even a confirmation email that the ticket was received. The only reason I don’t trash this app is that I have important information in the messages that I’d at least like to get back to. If I should ever get any freaking help. Horrible service.

Blocked. Blocked my account after one day of use, even though I had a valid phone number and only added one friend starting out. From what I’ve read online and talking to others, this is a common occurrence. It’s a shame because I liked this app. I tried contacting support but had no response in a week. All there support forms are broken on there website, so you can’t even fill anything out to try unblocking your account yourself. People who do have accounts are never “verified” by there terms, so they can’t verify your account as another way to unblock. It seems they only have an interest in up-keeping this app for China use, where they are based, so I don’t understand why they are trying to distribute it anywhere else when no one can get accounts nor any help! Never have I seen an app be this disastrous just for a chat app. It’s frustrating and ridiculous.

Great But Lacks Features For Group Management. WeChat is a great all in one social media app, it receives updates often. I have used it since 2016 and I am part of very large group chats (200+) and a group that spans too much. WeChat has everything you could possibly need Ex. Calling a taxi (in China), ordering food (in China), Video games, calls, chatting, and it even basically has Tik Tok inside it. Though it does have some downsides if you manage big groups it is nearly impossible to manage because of the lack of features that other competitors like Discord has. Things that competitors have that WeChat doesn’t include: slow mode, bans, sub chats, more roles, restrictions, etc. Overall it’s a great app that still has much to improve on, I will continue to use it since it is how I connect to all of my school friends and family.

My Review. The App is good but the way they block and ban people with the English version is so uncalled for. This minute your account is on and the next minute you gets a notification that your account has been banned for violations that you never committed. If the developers doesn’t want foreign users and wants only Chinese mainland users then they should take it off the Playstore and AppStore. The way foreign users are treated is not right. The English version for foreigners has lesser features compare to the Chinese Mainland users and yet foreigners get banned unjustly. If you don’t want foreign users then you shouldn’t bother creating an English version of it.. It is a software and it should be made easier for everyone to use.

Blocked people whenever they like. I used wechat for two years. I didn’t use it very often. Most of time I read those messages in some groups. I didn’t post anything on my board. And it asked me to enter my password again because previous login expired. I didn’t enter the right one at the first time. Second time I typed the right password. Guess what? My account was blocked. Only once wrong password caused that my account was blocked due to suspicious login. And I’m on the same devise and same ip as usual. And the problem is I don’t have friends who used wechat over six months, no one can helps me unblock my account. And it requires not only a person to help you unblock your account and people who help you must use wechat over 6 months and didn’t unblock for others for a month. It’s really ridiculous. And no one answered my phone when I called customer service numbers. If you solved the problem, I will change my rate and review.

Awesome but a few things. Wechat is a super crazy useful app, and if you live in China it’s one of the only forms of payment. You can use chats, calling, stickers, moments, videos, and even customize your ringtone. The login method is kind of a pain (i had to solve 6 captchas) but once you’re in it’s completely worth it. It’s like Facebook, instagram, twitter, Snapchat, messages, and TikTok rolled into one. One thing I would suggest is adding widgets for the Home Screen so you don’t have to manually find the app in your screen and can just open it from the widgets. That’s probably all I have for now. Get wechat!

WeChat blocked my account for several months. Just like a previous comment, my account was mysteriously blocked for no apparent reason for 7 months after years of using the account. Despite having contacts in China verify my account, the recovery process was circular and useless; whatever prompt they gave me to follow always brought me back to another prompt and another prompt and then rejection. Was never given any explanation as to why this happened. If it was a bug, I hope developers are more sensitive to fixing them promptly and creating a way for users to reach out to an IT representative who can help them instead of a robot . Very frustrating. I really missed communicating with a dear friend in China while I couldn’t sign in

Not Very good customer service. I personally have been using this app for about a few years (mostly because the rest of my family live in China), lots of people are saying that they are getting banned for “violating” the rules when they are just using the English version. I mean, I don’t know what it’s like to get banned but I can tell it is pretty horrible from the reviews. If you didn’t want people from other States other then China, just don’t put it smack in the middle of the App Store where everyone can see this app. I have many complaints about this app other than the unfairness. One, is that when I open the app, I have to stare into the abyss of the screen and wait for the intro screen to go away. And if you are reading this Chinese government, I hope you can AT LEAST let other people from different states use this app? The people from other states did nothing wrong soo yeah.

My favorite app! This app is absolutely amazing!. It‘s interface is incredibly clean and the core features stand out. It's a must have app for communicating and connecting with family and friends, and you can also share your daily life on Moments. Moreover, it offers a wide range of functions. In China, it can almost take care of every aspect of life. From handling business and financial activities, ordering food delivery, playing games, shopping, hassle-free flight check-ins, transferring money to friends, accessing fitness and health data, scheduling doctor appointments, receiving bank statements, paying utility bills, interacting and scheduling services with businesses and government, transportation, reading digital magazines, donating to charitable organizations, and integrating with other apps... you name it, this app does it all!

“Suspicious Login”. WeChat has permanently blocked my account due to a “suspicious login” which is “in serious violation” of their terms of use. I am a user in the USA and haven’t used my account for a couple of years now. I live 14 miles away from where I last used my account and tried logging on today. The app was downloaded via iOS App Store obviously and it even gave me the option of resetting my password. The password reset email was in Chinese! I changed my password anyway and tried logging in to the app. All of a sudden, it says I’m permanently blocked! This is ridiculous. You send a help request and nobody answers. And then when you try to unblock yourself, it tells you you’ve tried too many time. I can’t even have a friend verify my account, yet so can make a NEW WeChat. If someone has violated the terms of use, why should they be allowed to have another account? More importantly, what term of use did I violate? Not using the app for three years? I don’t have a VPN on my phone, I used the office iOS app. I feel like they just don’t want users from the USA. I did nothing wrong! I just want someone to tell me what I did to have my account blocked and to unlock it since it has been WRONGFULLY blocked.

Daughter wanted me to use this. Created an account and tried to log in and it immediately locked my new account, calling it “suspicious”! So I used my daughter as a contact to help unlock it, which it did until I tried to log in again. Then it locked me out again. I searched to see if possibly they were having server issues, and it turns out the app is owned or controlled (or both) by the Chinese government and people suspect the government of monitoring dissidents through their use of the app. I’m only guessing here, but if this is true then my using other peoples phone numbers to try to get my phone unlocked it would seem to be nothing but a phishing attempt by the Chinese government to find more people who are using the app. You would think that they would know the answer to that already I don’t know, maybe they got hacked and lost the info. Who knows. I deleted the app it’s useless.

Hopefully This Is Helpful !!. hopefully this may be helpful to some people, i downloaded this app last year and i was able to sign up, i made a new account and everything was fine, until a few days later when i wanted to open the app, it said that i got blocked and i needed to have someone else to help me unblock my account, so basically i did, and i tried it with 5 different people, and none of them worked, i deleted the app and re-downloaded but nothing happened, and my account was gone just like that, i was extremely devastated because i have friends on wechat and thats the only app i can communicate with the through, so basically my number was blocked from that app for whatever pathetic reason; in the end i had to actually change my phone number and i made a new account and it worked, and ever since then i never got blocked, im still using it today and im writing this so that whoever is confused may find this useful. i don’t hate the app, in fact i like it, its just that i was really bummed out on why they blocked my previous number for no reason; also don’t forget you can change your wechat language to english, if you don’t know lol, you can change it from your settings too :-)

Only way to stay connected. I have been using this app since 2012, and it reconnected me with my friends from middle school, family members I weren’t able to talk to for years. I can send messages or do video calls. Wechat has been the only thing connecting the two continents, and I’m truly grateful. I will probably lose connection with my dying grandparents and many lasting friendships, but I chose to love and not hate. I am thankful for the times I got to see my distant family face to face, and I truly pray that there will be alternative ways for me to stay in touch these friends and family members - because for immigrates, it is a lonely world which westerners can not understand. I thank all Chinese immigrants for your sacrifice.

Unable to proceed. I wanted to try WeChat to see what it was all about. I try to sign up and it won’t let me past the verification part unless I have someone who uses WeChat help verify. To me this absolutely stupid if I never heard of this app before. I’m not going to go around on social media or any other means trying to find someone who uses the app just to help me verify. In a way I’m disappointed cause I enjoy trying new apps that allow you to communicate with new people, until I find out the app has nothing but bots and scammers. I unfortunately will never know if this app is actually real or not cause of the stupid verification process that I am unable to do. So with that being said I give this app a 1 star. If something can change with the verification process where I’m able to move forward and explore the app more then I can write a new review with a possible better rating.

Can we pin the content in one group?. Wechat has been nice and easy to use for the past few years. I just wish there could be some parity functionality as slack to pin some content in one channel/group instead of saving them all in one favorite place and soon be buried by the next content. Also as there r more and more groups available, they always pop up to the top. If we can fold them into one bigger group like nested group function, it would help a lot for the user’s day to day experience. Hope some product manager from wechat could consider this.

(Update!)Unable to use the app anymore. (Now that I’ve written the review, I tried again and strange enough it works... still no explanation as to why this happened to me in the first place)This app checked all the boxes and all my friends use it but everything went downhill when I changed phones. I couldn’t recover my old account and WeChat prevents me from making a new one. I just get some cryptic message about “suspicious registration” and I can’t reach out to WeChat, there’s no information about my issue anywhere.. it is ridiculous. I’m at a point now where I can only talk to those with iPhones since it’ll cost way too much to text those without

wecrap, poor coding at it's finest.. The app locked me out for suspicious activity, I wasn't in the app, I didn't have the app open, how is that suspicious? Is it because I'm not using their app 24/7, perhaps it's because I'm not from it's country of origin? Nah, it comes down to just good old fashion poor coding, something universal. In what little time I was on the app I found it to be clean and some interesting features. I just didn't have time to make friends on it, so I'm locked out with zero way back in. How about the developer try that in reverse? Make it so you have to have friends to register, that way I don't waste my time on such a poorly designed poorly coded back end system, which I could just be using the book of faces for that. There are other apps out there that don't have the problem, I'm sure there are apps that are worse than this. Save your time, find some other way to message each other.

Thank you WeChat and support Asian owned businesses. WeChat helps connect people from all over the world, most commonly Chinese Americans to their homeland. We already face a lot of racism and xenophobia so imagine the biggest app that connect us to our family from somewhere else in the world, gone. And look at all the racists here giving it a one star (someone really called the WeChat app developers “zipper heads”)🤦‍♀️ super disappointed and sad as an Asian American. We will never be accepted here and Trump has made that clear since the start of his Presidency and even more within these past few months. And non Asians here have done the same. To all my Asians, please stay safe and let’s try our best to stay positive

Best messaging and social networking app. So glad to have tried this. Now it’s my only social networking app. It has great privacy features and actually does NOT spy on your like Fartbook or others. Love the recall function whereby you can recant in private or group chat within 2 minutes of posting. Also love the privacy-respecting Moments feature where your posts are only visible to your friends by default. Simply the best messaging and social networking app by far! Just wish we could use the Pay feature here in the States.

Good luck getting any support. Call functionality is decent but that’s not what I’m going to talk about. I forgot my password to my account. That account has a random unknown number linked to it. Which it could be my fault. it also has no emails linked to it. I could accept some accountability for that but what is upsetting is that there’s no way to contact support. The official website didn’t have a phone number listed nor had a chat function. The chat function part can be left out but any basic company would have a phone number to contact for any support. Let alone Tencent whose company worth is $134 billion. Basically if you’re in the US and you need some support, you’re screwed. This is completely unacceptable. If a small business can have a phone number, a multibillion dollar conglomerate should also have a number.

2 stars. Does what is claims to do, but quality is poor. If you send a photo, by default it is low quality. Selfie camera is broken—it sends mirror images. File transfer is poor. Very conservative limit on file size, and it often is not downloadable if the receiver doesn’t download it quickly. Translation is extremely poor—it gives insight to how uneducated Chinese people are when it comes to English. Recently the app asks me to verify my identity even though my passport is already registered to my account. Since the payment function depends on ID verification and the ID verification is broken, now I cannot use WeChat to pay for things. A typical all around low-quality Chinese app with lots of oversights. Please fix.

Never Really Used it but the asking for phone number is sus. I didn’t notice until now the Phone Number registration process,was meant for the company to give the phone number to some company that knows how to determine if you’re a scammer or not,but It is Sus,giving out your phone number can potentially give you robo calls,Might be a great way for someone to hack your account,Maybe this is a Trustful company for that but I refuse,to Trust some company I don’t really know & aren’t you Meta? Seeing someone talk about the registration process,I wonder if you really have to make sure someone also confirms your number,not just by the company but someone else too? I’m tired of seeing people from Facebook asking me if I have a WhatsApp & This App is really old news to me,I had it before & it wasn’t even close to connecting more with people,everytime I get asked if I have a What’sApp,I’m not sure if those types of People aka Strangers are going to request more from me when it’s fine on Messenger,just don’t give out any personal information & you’ll be fine.

AYYYYYY 🫐💗. like what? one of the best apps i have EVER used, literally incredible. it’s so easy to block people, send voice messages, transfer money and even pay using just one app. you can also post stuff and watch channels (basically tiktok, you can follow creators and create ur own account as well as being able to see what’s trending and what your friends have liked) i never knew there could be so many functions within one app. It’s all around the best app and definitely my most used one. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

The app is good but it’s blocked me for no reason.. So yesterday I made an account on WeChat and all I did was use one of their mini programs (the one that enhances quality, idk what it’s called) and that’s it! Then today I go to open up the app and it tells me my account is blocked due to “suspicious activity” I’m like ok?? so it tells me I can unblock it so I go through this lengthy process to unblock it and after all that it tells me I have to have a friend who’s been on WeChat for 6 months unblock my account, guess what? I DONT HAVE ONE. This is absolutely ridiculous, I haven’t done anything suspicious on the account and I’ll be deleting the app now. Maybe in the future I’ll try again if you guys ever fix the issues clearly running through this app.

Touchy Security and virtually IMPOSSIBLE to recover account. I downloaded this app in order to communicate with a group for college. I downloaded the app, created an account. Everything worked fine. The second time I opened the app THAT VERY SAME DAY it had logged me out, and when I tried to sign in, a message popped up saying my account had been deactivated due to suspicious registration. Of course, the only way to recover your account is to have another WeChat who has had an account for at least a month verify your identity, but I didn’t know anyone else at the time who had used the app long enough to verify me. THERE NO EMAIL RECOVERY OPTION. And, since you have to enter your phone number, not your email, to create an account, it is impossible to create another account if you get locked out of your old one (you can create a new email address, but you only have one phone number). Customer service WILL MOT ANSWER. TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. TERRIBLE APP.

Wish to give it 10 stars. It is a shame that Trump Administration decided to kill this app. It only demonstrates how convenient and powerful it truly is. I wish the order could be reversed, because building another wall on Internet is a Shame in US history. I just cannot believe I am seeing this in 2020. This is like seeing Trump’s coronation in US. The app collects information just like all other apps we are using daily, goolge, Facebook, snapchat, and the only thing that made it getting banned is Greedy from a President who wants to get voted by promoting hatred against Chinese.

Worst Application I ever worked with!. Each time they update a new version, not only any malfunctions do not fixed, it’s performance gets worse! Please stop developing and kill this app forever! - There’s no syncing whatsoever. I must work with this app because of my job. And I have it on my Cellphone and laptop. If I receive and open a message on my phone, next time I open it on my laptop, it won’t be there. Despite that I activated the sync button! And when I’m working on my laptop, and chat with someone, the app on my cellphone shows all my messages as new messages! - And don’t get me start with file system. To see a glance of how an app could be garbage, try to open it. Each time It takes like three attempts or more to open the app. And it’s not like the 3rd time it will open nice and easy. I must wait like 30 seconds to pass the opening page and the like another 30 seconds or more to loading!!! Please kill it and let the people use a real app!

Account blocked due to “suspicious activity”. I made a WeChat account yesterday. I set a profile picture, downloaded some of the cute stickers, and that’s it. I didn’t do anything else in the app. This morning when I try to log in, it says my account is blocked due to suspicious activity. I’m like “ok...I guess I can request for it to be unblocked.” So I go through this lengthy process to unblock my account which, mind you, should never have been blocked in the first place. Then I get to the step where the only way to unblock it is through a friend on WeChat who has made an account over 6 months ago. Well guess what? I DON’T HAVE ONE. I made an account about a year earlier and the same thing happened then. My account was blocked when I hadn’t even used it. I wasted my time trying to unblock the account. I ended up deleting the app then, and I’ll be deleting it again right now.

Love it!. I love this app very much, but one thing needs to change from the beginning. The thing is when we posted the pictures on moments or discover but forgot to add some pictures, want to replace the picture that is already posted, etc.... is should have “Edit” with “Like, Comment” next to it. So that I don’t have to delete the whole thing to repost it. What happen if my friends liked my post already when I noticed that I forgot to post or add some pictures in discover and just hit delete just to repost it. Is no use! So please add “Edit” when post is already post with “Like and Comment”! Thanks!!

Security, but why? Location modify feature please. I understand the security aspects of Wechat and really appreciate that, but for someone who is using Wechat for fun this has become useless. Anyone who is using Wechat have an option to secure their own account, the platform should only provide controls but it should be left to the individual to secure their own account. There is no point for the platform to deny someone access and lock them out of their account because they send too many friends requests or someone marks the account as spam. The platform can rate limit the requests. Also, it will be great to provide an option to set location and search for friends elsewhere. That will be great.

The worst social media app I have ever used. WeChat ranks as arguably the worst social media app known to humanity. From the very first page, the app specializes in frustrating users at every turn. The verification process is cumbersome and God help you if you don't have someone to verify you. In fact, sometimes even if you use a legitimate registered phone number, it would bring up an error message saying "This phone number is invalid". After verification, it gets even worse, you are restricted from adding a decent number of contacts in a short time and can be banned for any arbitrary reason. The ban cannot even be appealed. This app is terrible and the only thing going for it is that it has a monopoly on business with vendors in its home country. It's an awful app.

为什么 why. I’ll write this message in both English and Chinese so you can understand me better. Why did you remove the ability to see new videos? I can only see videos from people who I follow, and my friends. I understand that people with a Chinese phone number still have this ability. It’s very upsetting. I’m an American and I am trying to learn your culture, this was an amazing tool, taken away from me. I used to use wechat all day, but now it’s meaningless. I can use iMessage instead if I want to text my friends. Now the only thing WeChat has exclusively is their stickers. You’ve ruined the WeChat experience for all foreigners. I pray you will change it back very soon. 我会用英语和中文写这条讯息，这样你就能更好地理解我。 你为什么取消了观看新影片的功能？ 我只能看到我关注的人和我的朋友的影片。 我知道拥有中国电话号码的人仍然有这种能力。 这非常令人不安。 我是一个美国人，我正在努力学习你的文化，这是一个了不起的工具，从我身上夺走了。 我以前整天都在用微信，但现在它毫无意义了。 如果我想给朋友发简讯，我可以改用iMessage资讯。 现在，微信唯一独家拥有的是他们的贴纸。 你毁了所有外国人的微信体验。 我祈祷你很快就会把它改回来。

Love this app!!. I am a American guy who travels a lot throughout Asia and this is mostly used by the Asian community so it makes it very easy to connect with new friends! It’s super easy to use and it never has any issues in the 10 years that I’ve been using it. TO THE DEVELOPERS!! I do have a suggestion for you! How about some page themes so people can change the color and customize the look of their WeChat? Of course you charge money for this but I think it will increase overall revenue and give people a more personalized feel for the app which, will in turn, boost the app usage! Just a thought :)

Not a review. This is my first app review. I am not writing to rate the app. It doesn’t need it anymore. It will be removed from the store tomorrow, according to the news. Wechat is the place for me to keep connected to my Chinese friends overseas and back home. Now all of us are forced to look for other apps as alternatives. None has been found to be equivalent to Wechat. COV-19 has already created difficulties in physically visiting China. Will we be able to resume normal Sino-US travel soon? I don’t know. Now the virtual connection will be affected with Wechat removed from the store. Tencent, when you update the app every time in the future, keep in mind that there are users in US.

Security is too sensitive. I have had to unlock my account several times because of the new security changes. I use this app for work with clients over seas and it’s starting to make me loose business. I can’t access anything once I get locked out. If I try to log into my laptop it says there is suspicious activity. It locks me out all the time and now I have reached my Max account verification. I tried to get people to unlock it with the help a friend unlock the account and they all can’t do it because they get an alert that says they reached the max to help a friend. Then they get locked out because of suspicious activities. This is a horrible security development and should be changed ASAP because they will start to loose business. I wish I Can add pics to show proof of what I have to deal with.

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Mini APP within the Super APP. I've used many social apps over the year. But there are no apps can do what wechat does. That'll be their MINI program. You can simply scan it and use it as you go. There's no need to download native APP and take up space for your phone. You can also use wechat to make payment and pay within the MINI app. If you ever travel to China, make sure you have the WeChat handy. I just can't live without it. Peace out :)

A minor problem. As I need to translate a lot of information that I read. We used to be able to press on the top of the page and copy, select, select all used to appear. It would appear that you have removed select all from the script. This is very annoying as you now have to drag the whole article before you can copy it. Is it possible to have select all, put back as an option?

To joeycozz. I read your feedback, maybe because you do not have enough friends which using WeChat at the same time, you don’t get the benefit of the app possibly givens to you. I believe if you know more people used this app you will find it really functional and helpful than any others in the digital market. Try to find the right group to use this together, do not judge it because you don’t know how to use it properly. Many thanks.

Loveing Wechat. Friend cycle, messages, group even news all together, WeChat is becoming better than ever, we Chinese love Wechat. BUT! Can you guys fix the watch app? Wechat on my watch crashes every time when I tried to lunch it from a Watch OS 4 device. Still, wechat makes our lives at oversea as convenient as at home. Sharing video, reading news, posting sells, linking with local community! Go Wechat!

iPad mini can’t get synchronized messages. I use WeChat on both iPhone(7 plus) and iPad (mini3) with the same id, for some reason I can only read the push notifications on my iPad, but when I actually get in WeChat on iPad, the messages I saw in notification can’t be sync’ed(sync msg option ticked on when logging in with iPad) I thought it was a temporary problem which would be resolved with new release, until now it’s still happening. Only around 5% of all of the msgs are received by iPad. 4-5 years ago this function works perfectly all the messages are sync’ed, still using the same iPad, iPhone was 6+ then. Since 3 years ago, this sync problem arose, it first appeared as iPad not receiving messages, then it can receive push notifications but when open WeChat, these same messages can’t be received on the app. I have tried stay on WeChat or never turn off the screen, nothing works. I really hope WeChat can solve this problem it’s a very useful feature.

Deletes your account for inactivity. So Wechat decides at one point within their short spanned dying lifespan, that to further appeal to their customers and fuel their selfish, blinded, narrow minded and worthless objectives, they think that “hey, so in order to really reel in our customers, let’s just stab them in the back and deactivate their account after a period of inactivity, forcing them to create a NEW account, then having to add all their contacts AGAIN along with deleting their conversations prior to the disabling of account. Freaking A for awesome idea”. This was by far one of the most dim witted, pointless and worthless updates to implement to an app that revolves around communicating with people especially when overseas as there are countries that restrict the use of facebook or other social networking applications. I had faith and interest in this app, where I could rely on it’s straight forward, easy to use functions to send/receive messages overseas. But alas, this simple task has completely become void as your account is susceptible to being deactivated at any time, whenever Wechat desires to apply it’s sadistic lust to inconvenience all their customers however they please. Fix this mess you have created.

Can’t use same account on different technology. I love the app and how you can text and send send stickers or how there an place on the app where you can scroll and see what’s going on in people’s life cause of photos and l like how you can call video call and much more but l don’t think it’s only me but you cant use the same account on different pieces if technology an example is when l logged in into my 6 plus the wechat on my iPhone 6 turned of and stopped working and logged out by its self and don’t like it cause of that. But everything else is amazing

Fix notification bug. Sometimes the messages will appear as a notification and sometimes it doesn’t. Also the same thing with voice call and video call, sometimes one end will be ringing and the other person won’t answer because they haven’t received a notification. It complicates things, but it is a good free app

Don’t tell this app is bad just because of your opinion. This app is viral for Asia and if we do not have WeChat, some people can be bored. Actually, about 5 million or 6 million all around the world is using it! Like me, I am only 9 but, my grands are all in China and it’s fun to chat with each other every day! We can also create wonderful memories of people and will make you feel better every day! Plz this app is a memory of my grands. (This is a kind of culture to the Asian people). Plz read this

its a great app. This app isn’t made for making friends obviously, but for contacting friends. I love this app because it did a good job to protect our privacy. Not like Facebook or whatever. You likes someone’s article, everyone knows. That’s horrible. Not like WeChat, you can like and common whatever you like, and only common friends could see it, isn’t it great?

Data scrapping intrusive & unreliable. Forces users to accept access to you files, camera, photos, contacts. Also WeChat uses standalone Facial Recognition outside of FaceID. WeChat is compelled by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) law to assist and provide all information on its users. The platform is monitored and scrutinised including every single one of your conversations, photos and contacts. If you or one of your contacts say something that WeChat, moreover the CCP doesn’t like they can remove your posts, block/ restrict your account and this can also have knock on effects for your contacts. Quite scary when you think they have information about everything, because they even have to verify your ID or passport, and match it with their own facial recognition. If you have ever said something that China doesn’t like it makes you very unsafe if you need to travel back to China at some point or have family or friends there. What seems like a convenient social platform is a deceptive, manipulative and I would suggest dangerous tool under the influence of the CCP. Best and most safe alternative if you have friends or family with an iPhone, then just use FaceTime, iMessage and ApplePay. If you need to communicate cross platform use something else. Of your still not convinced you shouldn’t use this app then search online for the countless stories of people having their WeChat accounts restricted, blocked etcetera for all sorts of reasons.

If I could rate 0 stars, I would.. It is impossible to sign up for this app. I’ve tried so many times but I can’t get past verifying my email!! Even though I get sent an email, and clicked “ok” to verify, it does not verify my account! So I can’t even make an account! From a quick google search, if you are outside of China, don’t bother using this app because it is almost impossible to sign up, many have given up.

Just please?. This is a short review but now I literally can’t go into WeChat just because it still hasn’t been updated, I thought itll keep updating so that it’s still viable to use but I don’t think they even update it anymore, it’s just depressing that fact that they don’t have discord and I can only contact them on WeChat but now since I can’t go into it then I can’t contact and chat with them.

The notification doesn’t work. I thought the tickle function is to nudge the recipient, and notify the person to check the message from me. But both the tickle and the message notification will only work when we open the messenger. Otherwise, it won’t work. So, if that is what happened, then what is the function of those features again? The recipient doesn’t get my message on time.

Horrible and unusable signup process. After spending 30 minutes trying to create an account first using Facebook, then mobile, I just gave up. Keeps up sending a sms to a random number, only to pop up a spinnig wheel of death, and then the error message Too many operations, try again later. And the bad programmers that did this app, made sure you have to enter all your data every single time you try. Stay clear of this one, and choose something else.

WeChat is AWESOME!. WeChat is good it is so great that u cant mute people’s calls because the function is so great for taking a break from WeChat but if your friend mutes u will be very sad and sad is bad no good no good no good and if as people I’ll delete this app and I like it vary much and I wouldn’t want this app to be unpopular so plz don’t add a mute call button :)

Feature Suggestion. It would be great to have an option which allowed for pinyin to be shown under Chinese Characters. It would be a great way to help foreigners who live in China and abroad to learn how to read hanzi more efficiently! I know this may take some time, but it would be greatly appreciated! Contact me if you want more of my thoughts, I’d be happy to help any way I can! Thanks 🙏🏽

Is there a control freak control me to use the app?. For the past 3 years my Wechat app people nearby almost did not working, I mean nearby people cannot see my moments so they can’t say greeting to me and when I send greetings to them and they never received…. The reason I say the freak control me to use the app is because in this year it suddenly worked for 2 times, in different months but it only worked for a week then suddenly stopped…. Please don’t even think about could my settings issue, Apple Store many staffs know the app on my iPhone did not work as it, they checked and make sure not their iPhone products causes problems, also the phone service company did check the settings…. Thanks you Nancy

Needs key. I like this app very much, although as others have said, on an OSi device it lacks a key for a line break, which is quite annoying. Also, other messaging apps., like Viber & WhatsApp that let you know that a message has been received by the other device, and both of these go further by notifying that the message has been seen. Fix those, and it's going to be so much better.

I don't need help I just wanna say. This app is really good you should download it! The creator worked hard on this,I text my friend all the time and I always tell them to get wechat! Now they know what I'm talking about! Thxs for making this app I enjoy it a lot! IF I have any problem which I won't I will always tell you!❤️❤️

Increase custom stickers limit. I’ve used wechat for years now and i think its actually one of its best kind, as it updates more and more features are available, extremely convenient in china as well. The stickers are one of my favourite features of this app, however the custom features have a limit and once you’ve reached the limit, you cannot add anymore. I want to suggest to increase the limit so you can add more custom stickers to the collection.

Quite like this app! More functions needed!. Can you also offer a divided WeChat app in one phone like google play store? Or it would be great if users can switch accounts like QQ and allow 2 accounts to be linked to one phone number.

Absolutely a star. Look guys, Wechat has no problems and it has no violence, it has good security for all users unless you give away information. I recommend it and it does not need money! I reckon I use wechat more then Messangers! Great app!

My account was frozen twice for no reason. My account got frozen again for no reason. I didn’t send any messages the day before then the next day I woke up, it told me my account is frozen. I don’t have that many friends on WeChat I only downloaded so I could take some Chinese lessons and Ty he only send me the link to my class through WeChat each night. I have already paid for all the lessons and now I have no access to it. WHAT DO I DO???

recent use. i have to go to china soon for a school trip and we were advised to download this app to contact relatives when we are there. At the start i had no problems but once i downloaded this app on my mums phone, it locked her out for no complete reason. Even once trying to reactivate her account with an allegeable account, we were unsuccessful. For china to block most of their apps and for this one app which is accessible there to not even work is absolutely absurd. This apps security is so tight that it doesn’t even work properly and i’m not the only person who has experienced this problem, as my friends whom are also going on this trip have undergone this process with either their account or their relatives. Honestly disappointing and i hope this gets fixed before my trip as the fundamental purpose of this app is for communication.

Amazing must download right now. WeChat is amazing I love to context with my friends and send them emojis these emojis are awesome so many more sweet emojis that we can’t use my phone l can call my friends and chat with them and make group read the news and see what happening it’s really helpful when you can block someone when they are annoying you or unblock someone that is important or you just want to unblock download now

Problems after updated to version 8.05. I’m encountering a few problems since updating in 3 weeks ago. For example, 1. cannot listen to a voice message if it’s more than 20second long 2. Login issue: every time I have tried to login at least 2-3 times then going through connection and loading cycle, it takes longer than used to be. 3. Under The discover section - the moment function is refreshing but there is no data loading up for 4days. 4. Deleted the app then reinstalled,then I can’t login anymore, I noticed that some options under Apple setting - WeChat, photos are missing. I have to lodge a report/feedback, then the options came back. 5. I reported the issues last night again, it functioned to normal after 3 weeks, I am so happy that it’s all solved. However, in the next morning the issues came back again, I have been sending report/feedback again, still going nowhere. So frustrating! 6. The problem is happening on iPhoneXR & brand new 12 pro max not on my iPad and iPhone 7 Plus! It’s so weird!

ANGRY. I am very disappointed with my wechat experience. This is because about a year ago I downloaded wechat and signed in using my phone, I then signed out because my account was glitching. I redownloaded it now, and it’s asking me for someone else’s number to verify it’s me. But unfortunately I didn’t have any friends on wechat to talk to, therefore I don’t have any other way to log back in to my account. Very unhappy and please make a new verification system. Thank you

Chat and dating features in one package. Very reliable app to communicate with dating feature like finding people nearby. It is also faster than most dating apps and it is one of the best for chat app. Been using it for maybe ten years.

You have to use it !. I’ve using this we chat since it came out, it always so amazing and unbelievably good tool to face to face talk or message to my friends and families for all these years. It free, wherever is internet available wherever you can get started, great! Love it!

Cannot share photos from “Photos” and camera?. Used to be easy and convenience, open IOS Photos - select photos or screen shots - share - WeChat - select contacts and the photos will be sent. Same as IOS camera , take a photo-share - WeChat - select contacts and the photos will be sent. Now neither of these works, will have to save all the photos and screen shots - open WeChat - “+” - photos and select photos, by doing this way, it creates lots of extra photos and screen shots that we just need to use once OR an extra deleting step has to taken after share the photos/screen shots.

My favourite messenger. This is the main messenger I use most of the time, it got lots of functions. I love it so much. But the only thing I wish it could be improved is the voice message, I can’t keep it if I change a new mobile. It would earlier lost the original voice message and can’t play at all. Even I tried to transfer and store those message to ipad before I change the new mobile, still can’t keep all of the voice message. Feeling disappointed.

Wallet. This app is amazing, but i found that some users who download wechat that are from countries other than china dont have the wallet function. Can you please fix this? If other people have this problem, i have also searched it up and it says to get a friend to send you a red envelope or lucky packet, then click to recieve, and apparently you will get the wallet function after that. I dont know if it will work, so could you please add the wallet function for clients who use this app other than china. Thank you, A proud user of Wechat

Reply function. We can’t quote and reply messages on any chat group. And the alert / notification is very bad, we need to keep the app open to get notification. Another feature we need is to be able to group chat groups together in seperate folders, mommy we chat is a mess ! Mixing with companies wechat, promotion, and chat and etc.....

Waste of time. I tried to sign up to Wechat for communication purposes in China but was asked to be verified by another user due to unusual activity on my account which I found strange. I managed to get verified but then a few days later when I tried to log in again, my account was blocked again and needed to be verified. I then tried to get verified by another user through the ‘help friend log in’ option but it failed as it came up with a message saying that user is blocked too. After numerous attempts, I cannot understand why it is so difficult and get verified more than once. Horrible experience overall and a waste of my time.

Group Chats fail. If you ever delete the app, all the group chat messages and groups will disappear. No other app does this. Extremely disappointing. If you have to set each group chat to “save” manually each time to avoid this which isn’t obvious, as again, no other app works like this. Notifications are also broken. Sometimes it gives me a notification for no reason at all. Open the app, nothing. Does not support the phone integration within iOS so you have to unlock and open the app to accept phone calls which means you cannot use a Bluetooth headset, CarPlay, or Apple Watch to receive calls. This especially makes it useless while driving and unsafe. This app is in need of a serious update to make it modern. I really can’t believe how in 2022 this app can be so backwards considering all the options out there.

Deactivates account. Says suspicious activity and deactivates account. I only had an account for 7 days. Only way to reactivate is to get a friend on wechat to confirm who I am but they have to have had wechat for longer than 6 months, which since everyone I knew had only just started was not possible. Is a useless function! Came to App Store to see if there was a solution and found a lot of people equally frustrated. I think it may have given me a virus also.

Please fix the screen orientation. Only recently screen orientation is the wrong way around. When I have iPad turned landscape, the thumbnail of my picture is in portrait, whilst the picture was f the people I’m calling is landscape. When I turn the iPad to portrait, my picture stays portrait but the picture I cure of the person I’m calling goes landscape within the portrait space. It never used to do this. To the person I’m calling, my picture comes on their screen sideways. Please fix this.

One of the best of its kind. I'm going to make this short, this testing app is one of the best,many many functions and better than facebuk twittur etc. the people who don't like this app is cos they never used an app as grate as wechat. Other people that give it low rating is just trying to make this app seem bad and say "it's a scam" privacy alert blah blah,but it's not it's grate, there's nothing to worry about, ppl get blocked is cos they don't know how to use it, i have 2 accounts with no problem, and it tells u to link ur bank account cos it's a feature on wechat where u can pay by scanning stuff, even shops or restaurants like McDonald's use wechat to pay and etc, and others that don't like it is cos the don't understand Chinese. Haha sad

Send voice messages on Apple Watch app. Love the app, but a glaring problem is that when I’m sending a voice message, there is non”send” button, only a “cancel” button. So for me to send the message, I have to exit the app and go back in before there is a “send” button. Very frustrating!

Great for Everything Except Chat!. The amount of things you can do on WeChat is absolutely amazing. It truly is central to life in China. But the actual messaging aspect is archaic. The ability to like individual comments would stop the incredible amount of spamming that comes up in group conversations. The ability to create an event that people can RSVP to in the chat would also stop the ridiculous 1. Name 2. Name 3. Name lists that pollute conversations. The ability to reply directly to individual comments would also prevent things getting lost in larger groups. These are already things most other messengers possess. But a positive, the ability to send and receive money from friends is amazing.

Hope moments could have a automatic “back to top” sign. When I am checking on the moments, I realize that there is no way go back to the top automatically which makes it hard as I have to do it manually. Even you close the moment and re-open it soon the page will still be the same one you have been. It is waste of time!

Terrible and unreliable. I downloaded this app to be able to contact my friend going to China but within one day when I went to message them after their arrival, my account had been locked out and I was told it was blocked due to unusual activity and no further explanation - as far as I’m aware, I did everything correctly and broke no terms of service. It told me I needed somebody with an account older than 6 months to verify me in order to unblock my account (which is a stupid rule in itself), and I found two people to attempt to help me but they were both told their accounts had been restricted because of unusual activity as well. Upon finally finding a way to contact my friend, I discovered that her WeChat account had also been blocked as well as our mutual friend’s who downloaded it for the same purpose. This is clearly an issue with this service rather than five different people doing things to warrant their accounts being blocked with no worthy explanation. I would absolutely not recommend this app as a way to contact anybody, and would strongly urge anyone to find an alternative.

Chinese Spyware Security and privacy nightmare the privacy policy it's terrible. Zero security privacy. This App and service retrieve all personal and non personal identifiable info and device utilisation. Banned on all our companies iPhone Fleet. If you value your contact and privacy don’t install this app. This is Chinese spyware. So they will monitor collect store and share you conversations personal info and GPS location and you also agree that they can share with third parties all you contacts and their personal information...they even record audio and video without your knowledge. Remove this app now!!! Just look at all the info that this application collects about you? Health data for what? Your page visits, cookies everything, Chinese spyware

To JoeyCozz. Now, I have been using WeChat for almost FIVE years now and have never encountered that problem. Either 1. Your account has been hacked and WeChat has blocked/banned you. 2. Your device may not be suited for the app and WeChat has kicked you because you don’t have the right device. Or 3. Your app has had an update that’s too large for your device. (Similar to what I said in two) Overall, I think this app is the most greatest messaging app I’ve ever used. I suggest people to get this app but avoid breaking rules, be 17+ and not be a 7 year old kid that has encountered something and writes a review on that ‘bug’ when really, its just a feature. Proceeds to say, “I suggest people to not get this app.” and, “I have been in a lot of bugs/crashes/glitches, I hate this app!” and exc. JoeyCozz, just because you have encountered this problem doesn’t mean everyone will. I suggest new users to try the app out and not listen to the bad reviews but keep them in mind. If you have experienced any glitches/crashes/bugs please consider going to weChat’s app support. - An experienced and happy user.

This is the most useful app ever!. I dunno y the rate is so low but WeChat is literally the most popular app in China( Tik tok the second obviously)! And it is also indeed very useful, it’s like our second wallet. U can add a card into ur pay vender so u can pay with it .And u just can’t live in China without this app?

Very Poor App. Don’t waste your time. Downloaded app then created account. Used it for a couple of days then deleted it as found it not very useful. Decided to give it a second chance and re installed app. Signed into my account then account was blocked due to possible suspicious activity which I get the security measures side of things. So I verified my identity using password then mobile number sms verification only to be directed to another security measure which requires another we chat member to verify my identity. Seriously are you guys joking? Account is blocked now as only new to wechat and did not have chance to make new friends via your app not enough time to recommend people to downloading your app!! As a result have to delete your app even though I verified my identity. The mentality of the so called genius who created the security measures. I’m laughing so much as it’s such a joke. HONESTLY people reading my REVIEW DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS APP!! Only left one star because you cannot leave a big fat ZERO!!!!!

To jaj600. There’s actually a feature which allows you to directly translate the message from WeChat, so you don’t have to copy and paste it into google translate. You just have to hold down on the message and you will see a button that says translate (you may have to press the right/left arrow key if it doesn’t show up right away. Other than that, it’s a great app. It’s easy to use and works very well, I’ve never encountered a major problem with WeChat and I’ve been using it for about 3 years.

No customer service. In China, I have to use WeChat for work to communicate with people. I have hundreds of work and client contacts saved, and lots of important files. After upgrading to a new phone, I couldn’t log onto WeChat, and couldn’t recover my password as I registered using my OZ number that’s no longer in use. I contacted WeChat support, but after sending back a generic response, they have not responded to my multiple queries in 3 weeks. That is extremely unprofessional for such a large company.

Account blocked on first attempt. Down loaded the app and followed the instructions to set up the account. Verification failed somehow and the account got blocked. Followed the unblocking instructions but this failed as well. Now it seems that the only way forward is to nominate a We Chat friend who has had an account for more than 6 months. I don’t have that. All I want is to communicate with my daughter while she is traveling in mainland China. This feels like Groundhog Day!!!!! What a terrible sign up process!!!

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小视频的推荐栏目被禁止了！. 两天前升级到8.0.38以后小视频的热门推荐栏目就找不到了！太不满意了！怎么才能退回到原来旧版本？

Xi mingze. Xijinping

What?. So I have been reading the reviews and they are saying that this is a spying app, and that big brother is watching you. Who is big brother?!

Must have. Good! Edit: after updating to iOS 11, don’t get notification anymore! Just missed a week worth of messages! Please fix!

Don’t work with new ios. I have the 11pro and the app keep saying error download the latest so they didn’t do their updates..sucks

CANT LOG IN. It doesn’t let you login unless you get another friend to verify for you. However none of my friends uses WeChat so I’m literally just stuck. Tried contacting their customer service many times and received no reply. I hate this app but I need it for work.

I can’t make an account to talk to my sister. So I live in Canada and my sister lives in China, but for some reason I can’t make an account to talk to her unless she has has an account for more then 6 months so that she can put in a random QR code or my number? That and also the text thing looks strange Basically what I get is text like this: signup_contact_friends(signup_no_need_be_friends)

视频号推荐和搜索哪去了. 新版本没了微信视频号推荐和搜索功能。差评

希望能尽快修复. 不知道为什么我的视频号只能看朋友和关注了 推荐这一栏看不了 然后看一看也是，一直在显示不出

死了. 8.06无法连接，无法更新信息，甚至无法退出登录

No connection after updating. 8.0.5 - no connection

Bruh i can’t make an account on the iPad mini 4th generation.. This is the only device I have, can you implement the account creating on iPads? Also thanks randyxx123 for the dystopia novel reference.

17+ more like 13+. Hey it says 17+...but there is nothing in it that should be 17+! Maybe change it to like 13+ cuz all the things in wechat are appropriate. 😓

Not secure. Strict censorship with obvious political standing on content and chat. A lot of times it blocks critiquing Chinese government and warn chats taking about politics not into their favour. You just feel that there is a pair of eyes watching your activities on this app. I rarely use this app.

不人性化. 希望发过的朋友圈 可以重新编辑 比如重新编辑描述 或者隐藏组图的时候可以选择隐藏一张图或者全部隐藏

在群里被禁声can’t speak up in group. 不知道自己说了什么，在几乎所有的群里都无法发言，西朝鲜的宪法不是写明保障言论自由吗？ I can’t send any messages in almost every group I am currently in, I suspect this is a result of something that I have said. But am I not protected by the constitution law?

无法收取信息. 8.0.6, 朋友圈和信息都无法使用． 信息永远显示收取中，朋友圈就一直刷新。

5.4Gb??!!?!. 太疯狂了。该应用程序总是关闭，因为它需要 5.4GB 的可用空间才能工作！这是一个对话应用程序吗？不是3D游戏！

Big oof. It send your inflation to the China grovement

Mat. IOS12更新后闪退，不联网。

视频号的热门没有了. 我昨天更新了微信，然后发现视频号的热门推荐没有了，现在只有关注和朋友这两个分类了。请问怎么回事呀？

Translate function is fascinating. It will be appreciated very much if SELECT could be replaced by TRANSLATE in chat/group chat. If so, WeChat will be more helpful for more people. Please. Furthermore, if automatic translation as an option function to turn it on/off, it will be perfect. Thank you very much.

发送和接收图片视频极慢. 网速很快的情况下加载不出来视频和图片，五秒的视频需要加载五分钟，有时甚至表情都加载不出来

内存管理非常差. 占用太多存储空间，并且不能有效地清理。聊天记录也不能方便输出存储。语音也不能转发存储。

iOS 12 support problem. There are some serious supporting issues with iOS 12 in iPhone 6S phones, need to be addressed ASAP, and WeChat application has not been updated for more than a month, which is not professional.

又大又丑. 不明白一个社交软件为什么这么大，隔壁messenger 才50m WhatsApp 90m ，一堆没什么用的功能

F*ck you ccp. Don’t use this app the ccp steals all your info

zhinazhu. caonima

8.0.5 update crashed. Lost all my chat history. Can’t send/receive message after updating to version 8.0.5. Worst app ever

Dark model.. Where the F is dark model. Switching to WhatsApp

CCP SPYWARE!. There is no peer to peer encryption security feature which is widely used by other social apps nowadays. The reason being it’s convenient for the Chinese government to fetch your chat data from your phone at anytime! Don’t use it unless you absolutely need to communicate with Chinese inside their walls.

Dark mode. When can we have dark mode wechat huh?

Unable to login. Need “friend” to help. Can’t be bothered anymore.

Stuck on loading on iPad for the latest update.pls fix. Stuck on loading on iPad for the latest update.pls fix

莫名其妙占用10g多存储. 我对话全删了也才1.5g, 你凭什么都放我本地而不是你服务器上? 还不如qq

cannot connect to server. cannot connect after update.

Takes huge storage space. You also have an unreal engine?

bug越来越多越来越离谱. 怎么这软件你们自己不用吗？这能用吗？打开半天连接不上，消息延迟赶上写信了。别的app咋不这样呢？我谢谢你狗屎软件🙂

净开发无用功能. 能不能把什么拍一拍之类的鸡肋功能全删了

关了拍一拍功能. 这烂功能垃圾死了，下一个版本赶紧关了

Frozen after iOS 12 update. The app freezes whenever I open it

Worst App. Even signing up is a pain. Too much verification process involved. Waste of time.

垃圾tx，垃圾微信. 敢不敢把取消视频推荐写到更新日志里？一天天的背地里干一些缺德的事情。anyways，此地不留人自有留人处，拜拜垃圾tx

This app is why the whistle blower of COVID-19 got arrested. Dr Li Wenliang along with 7 other medical doctors from Wuhan China were arrested by Chinese authorities because they “illegally” discussed the COVID outbreaks in their local hospitals in a wechat group in Jan 2020. It’s okay to use Wechat but be warned you are constantly being monitored by the cyber police in Communist/Socialist China

8.0.6 版本iPad同时登陆网络问题. 一直用iPhone为主 然后同时登陆iPad 微信好几年都没有问题。iPhone上显示iPad微信已登陆。但iPad上不能退出登陆 也不能收发。处于死机状态。iPad上其他app收发正常。只能先卸载再重装了。

更新ios12以后不能正常使用. 更新ios12以后不能正常使用，请立即解决问题！打开app以后立刻闪退或者在app内卡住，请有关团队立即解决！

Don’t update IOS 11. Can’t connect network OMG! Plz fix it immediately

Activate. Very unusual and unfriendly user unlike other apps hard to activate the account

2021年了还不能同步聊天记录. 如题

Auto update. Mine did a auto update in the new year without a notice. It sucks.

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Let me toggle dark/light mode please. The app was fine until last update. Now it forces WeChat into dark mode because my iPhone system is in dark mode too. There is no way to change it unless you change the system-wide setting. Every app out there let’s you override the dark/light setting of your phone. Please let us use whatever mode we want regardless of the OS setting. That said, the dark mode itself is bad. All my stickers are messed up because of the dark background. Doesn’t seem like the update was thought through.

What happened?. WeChat has been my number one app of all time. I have met wonderful people from all over the world all for free. I never had a complaint until now. One day I open the WeChat and I use the shake function. All I get are Chinese and the profiles seem fake. I have messaged over 300 Chinese women with no replies. I do not think the profiles are real. None of the profiles have moments and all the photos are fuzzy. I want my old WeChat shake back or I can chat with women from the Philippines, Malaysia the US and Europe. Am I being punished or what? My people nearby works great it’s just the shake only goes to China with no results.

AYYYYYY 🫐💗. like what? one of the best apps i have EVER used, literally incredible. it’s so easy to block people, send voice messages, transfer money and even pay using just one app. you can also post stuff and watch channels (basically tiktok, you can follow creators and create ur own account as well as being able to see what’s trending and what your friends have liked) i never knew there could be so many functions within one app. It’s all around the best app and definitely my most used one. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

China. I see comments there are some people in the United States said that the software is not good, some problems cause you use effect is not good, but I ask you to know that this software is a lot of people in the use of software in China, his influence is very strong, now he is found in North America the app, does not mean it is for you to use, and most of it is for our Chinese students, you don't like to give up. There's no need to say where it's dead, of course I'm not racist about anything.

We chat. Whatever is going on with these inventors I had a WeChat account or year ago when my daughter went to China. I had one for two days when my wife’s been in Cancun this morning I wake up and it tells me it cannot connect me because of what I have no idea of. I’ve tried a couple passwords that I knew no go. Tried to reboot it won’t let me do anything just put in my phone number that’s wrong put in her phone number that’s wrong put in this phone number that’s wrong put it in any password that’s wrong this WeChat is for the birds find another way to communicate other than WeChat now I can’t talk to my wife them at all I’ll have to use my phone see what happens

Annoying. It’s great if it works, but i recently changed my phone number and had the hardest time linking my new phone to my old one. The purpose of this app is to stay connected with people.... i only use it to chat with my parents. It’s asking me to have “friends” verify my account. My parents are not very tech savvy, so getting them to verify is not something i can do until i visit them in person. I tried to sign up for a new account and it didn't work. I tried to change my number... and it says account compromised. (Probably because I tried so many times...) I wish the app was more user friendly.

Fix dark mode. This is a great app, but when it updated and had gotten dark mode, everything was ruined. I like keeping dark mode on my phone, but I don't like the dark mode on WeChat. WeChat dims my custom background and it isn’t what I want. I suggest to either keep the background the way it is, or to make a dark mode setting so it will be manual. If people like dark mode like this, please make dark mode a setting that you can manually turn on and off. If you are a WeChat user, and you like bright backgrounds, I highly suggest you not to update WeChat. PLEASE. CHANGE IT BACK TO NORMAL OR MAKE IT MANUAL. Thank you for reading this.

Does not notify upon new message/Constant glitches while playback voice message. As an instant chatting app, this app does not notify me when my girlfriend sends messages to me. This is extremely annoying. My girlfriend is very upset with me because of this. The message playback have been a major feature for a long time, but this app constantly fails at this job. When I click play, and put my phone close to my ear in my office, you know what? While the voice memo is being played in the upper speaker for my ear, it will suddenly stop, black out, then switch to the louder speaker, letting all my colleague in the office hear it. It happened hundreds of times by now.

Got blocked so can't use this app :/. I opened my account and began using this app to communicate with my business partners but then somehow got blocked. We double-checked - Everyone in our groups said they didn't block my account. Despite my and my associate's attempts to contact this business for help, NO ONE at WeChat CUSTOMER SERVICE IS THERE TO HELP! :( So anyway long story short, we stopped using WeChat and are now happy GroupMe (by Skype) users! GroupMe offers so much more than this app: create RSVP calendar events, send photos, invite ppl to groups, add/delete ppl to groups, ppl can delete themselves from groups but easily join (with invite from current group member), can receive SMS rather than thru this app (doesn't send emoticons).

Voice Messages Keep Cutting Me Off!!!. Incredibly annoying issue where voice messages keep cutting me off before I finish and send them. This is ridiculous. Allow a feature to let me stop recording or at least don’t stop when I have the button clearly pressed and hold. Also another insanely annoying feature is the inability to use Return to go to the next line. This is problematic as I cannot type addresses with line breaks. It will send each line as a separate message. Also the inability to backup entire chat history with pictures and videos like iMessage, is absolutely unacceptable. Fix these 3 issues, and this trash app will become one of the best.

Zero stars. This is the worst app I have ever seen in my life. There is absolutely nobody in any locations I want and when you try to delete the app or delete your account and cancel it they won’t let you for a two week period. I have gone over the two week period and it says I keep changing stuff and will not delete the app still. Worst app ever. Still trying to get rid of it. You put in your information and now it has your phone number and type of phone in it. You can’t change it or delete it because it says if you have a change you can’t cancel your account and you can’t leave things blank. All I want to do is cancel my account and get rid of this so none of my information is on here.

Can someone helppp. I have been using wechat for a pretty long time and I use a iPad mini 3. I check my wechat settings and it says 7. 0. 20 which is the most current and latest version. I can’t find dark mode 😂 I really can’t. I went to “me” -> “settings” -> “help&feedback” and clicked “how do I set dark mode?”. It says to go to Me > settings > general > dark mode > enable automatic. But I cant find the dark mode option in my general settings on wechat. Someone please helppp!!!

Wish I had ability to change ringtone. Everything is pretty much amazing, really nothing to complain about. I got this app around 2 years ago and use it since most of my family use this app. I think they should make it so we’re allowed to change or ringtone or text tone. It gets pretty boring after 2 years and having the ability to change it could really help. Other than that, it’s all good!

I’m furious at this app!!!. Hello dear developers I made a WeChat account recently, about two weeks ago, and I didn’t need to use it until today. Surprisingly my account was restricted because of suspicious and unusual activity 😑😑 Well I’ve been trying to log into my account for five hours and I’ve gone through all the steps but it still doesn’t work!! Two friends tried helping me but it still doesn’t work! Excuse me? I shouldn’t have been blocked in the first place and now I’m really annoyed because I’ve done everything the app requested me to do to get my account back and it doesn’t work 😑 please do something I need my account to communicate with some new Chinese coworkers and I’m helpless right now.

Wow!!! The most stupid security verification in the industry. I just want to know the thought process (if there was any thought behind it ) of the people who decided to enforce verification by another person for creating an account? How about to take bonds and put someone from family as a hostage while using the app to make sure it's not against the Chinese Communist rules and regulations? What if I am living in rural area and there is no other Wechat user who didn’t help someone else to get security verification? Isn’t it better to limit this app to Communist countries only so you can enforce the communist party’s policies? I am wondering how Apple allowed such a horrible requirement exist under their nose.

App Great / Tech Support Ehhh. Love the App, I’ve been using this app for a few years now. It has some great features for chatting, speaking, and video. Also love that you can make new friends through other features like People Near You, Shake, and Message In a Bottle. I’m not impressed with the Tech Support. About a month ago when using the shake feature I got a “To Many Attempts, Try Again Later” error. I’ve submitted a couple of requests for help including a screen shot and still no help. Overall, I recommend the App and think you will be happy with it.

The App force me to give up my privacy. Try to setup an account for personal use only. I am very careful not to let it go through my address book. so I deny to let the app have access to my contact. I don’t let you have all my contact because I won’t sell my contact out to you!! ridiculously you blocked my phone saying that my account is compromised, make me go through security check need other wechat member to unblock it. Forget about it. Too stupid to go through this. You are the one I don’t trust. Couple years ago, i let you have access to my old phone, you add everyone (included friends and clients) on my phone book to wechat. Have you consider my privacy? I don’t want everyone in my contact links on any social media !!!!!

App should be deleted. I use the app and anyone can report you just because they want to be a jerk and instead of looking at the history or anything we chat will block you and suspend you I think the app needs to allow someone to decent there self... if they allow you to use shake feature how can they suspend you because you sent a unwanted message to someone else that uses shake? Why not delete that function if you don’t want someone to send a message it’s a crappy tech support you can’t email them or report issues... they give you a small amount of letters to use for feedback or support help .... it’s a app that can be good it’s a shame they only listen to one side of a story

System kicked and blocked me out without reason. I’m in nyc and started using the app everything was great until last night the system kicked me out and need verification from my friends, luckily my friend helped and my account is restored but from time to time my friend will receive notifications from WeChat warning that my account is not registered in China and could be a potential threat / scammer Pls help me WeChat and look into this, I don’t want my account to be blocked again. Thanks and love the app!

Essential app for Chinese community. The WeChat is probably the largest and busiest social network platform in the world so you may wonder why there are so little reviews, even the negative one. This is because everyone is busy using the app itself instead of writing reviews. If you haven’t use it before, try it. If you are going to China, definitely download one and start to use it. The Chinese life style is going to spread to the entire world soon.

Unable to Sign Up or Log In!!!!. Terrible app. Tried to log in because I remember making an account a while back. After multiple security login pages and confusing terms and conditions and agreements that WEREN'T EVEN WRITTEN IN ENGLISH !!! I finally got through for it to give me an ERROR WRITTEN IN CHINESE that said that the app is not up to date! WHICH IT WAS! Tried the sign up screen and it required a "friend" to authenticate??? But I already used a "friend" aka my 60 year old mother !!! in one of the log in security pages and because of that it wouldn't allow me to do anything! Absolutely terrible user interface. Confusing and convoluted for no reason at all! It shouldn't be this hard for an old user to log inm If I couldn't give this app zero stars I would!

It’s a good app. The app is good for communication and interactions with people mainly in China, it allow us to connect with them since there’s not a lot of apps to use to talk with them. I saw that many of the one star reviews are about accidentally nudging the other user in certain cases. But I think that’s just a small problem. The nudging happens when you double click the users profile. Overall there’s not a lot of distractions. Just be careful.

Help. I just signed in and in a couple of days and I got blocked. I used actually my Facebook account AND my number. I was pretty excited because this app has soo many amazing reviews. I did nothing. I just signed in, change my photo and finish. I had my account activated maybe for 3 days? 4? But then, when I tried to check my account again it said that I got blocked and I needed someone help. I have no friends with wechat that fit with the criteria needed to help me. I just can’t change my number and I don’t know what to do:( I really want to use my account, please help me

horrible second experience. The application is especially used by anyone in China to do everything, order food, including payments. You might post something, message somebody and your account is easily blocked, you don’t even know why. This is the second time my account is blocked, first I gave up years ago, started fresh recently as i was going for a business trip and got blocked again, and unblocking it is going to be the same nightmare, and I don’t really have the patience for it. Giving up freedom of choice for convenience should never be an option, cash is king! Telegram is still the best out there for communication and community information share, yes, because of it, entities pay agencies to create fake accounts and try to get people leave it, but still the best! Simply stop using it, civil liberties are chipped away we have seen it with Facebook, Twitter, Google, all of the big players; is sad a software review has to deal with this aspects.

Not User Friendly and Data Mining Sus. No matter if you login using Facebook or apple, you need to provide your phone number and have someone verify you. Otherwise signup cannot be completed. This is very sketchy as to why they even have OpenID to authenticate with other providers if it’s the same as mobile signup regardless. Only reasonable answer for this behavior is to get her customer data and still require the same signup flow. That way they can store your Facebook login information, Apple ID and your phone number. No matter what you need to go through mobile signup which requires you to have someone who already has a WeChat account to verify you within minutes. Do not bother with other signup options as they aren’t necessarily options but just ways to get extra data. They only allow deletion depending on local laws, not by their own policy so make sure to look up your local/country laws on data and privacy.

(Update!)Unable to use the app anymore. (Now that I’ve written the review, I tried again and strange enough it works... still no explanation as to why this happened to me in the first place)This app checked all the boxes and all my friends use it but everything went downhill when I changed phones. I couldn’t recover my old account and WeChat prevents me from making a new one. I just get some cryptic message about “suspicious registration” and I can’t reach out to WeChat, there’s no information about my issue anywhere.. it is ridiculous. I’m at a point now where I can only talk to those with iPhones since it’ll cost way too much to text those without

LANGUAGE ISSUES. The system allows you to convert into a handful of languages other than Chinese; however, the file transfer is often named by some Chinese characters when your trying to upload some documents, which is quite confusing since the system ought to be operating under a full English version after the switch. Other similar cases appear once in awhile when your browsing through the app. When problems resembling to those I’ve faced in terms of their recklessness, it makes you wonder the effort put into the design and testing of the app... Anyway, WeChat really need to refine their language settings.

To Yani2x and a few others. I am an American user and I can sign in no problem. It’s not that wechat didn’t want American users, but Trump banned it in US. Usually they ban you not because of no reason but because someone reported you. Of course the need to find evidence first. Wechat is a great app, it has high quality calls, millions of sticker packs, group call (WITH VIDEO if you want), moments (so you can catch up with your friends.

Blocked while traveling was a disaster. WeChat blocked my account while I was traveling in Asia. I couldn’t perform any of the verifications to correct the account since I didn’t have access to my USA phone number while abroad. The conference organizers and attendees were using WeChat as the exclusive method of communication, so I was completely cut off. I lost access to my collection of contacts. WeChat said that my account had suspicious activity, but I have no idea what that was, or how to correct it. Now that I’m back in the States, WeChat still will not unblock my account. It’s unacceptable for a platform of this scope, which so many people depend upon, to be cut someone off without warning or recourse. Relying on WeChat while in China was a disaster.

Built in Lock (Password, Pattern Lock, Faceunlock, Fingerprint). WeChat is wonderful application, I am using it since 2015, I was using it before to contact my friends in China, but after moving to China, I am a regular user now because life in China is without WeChat is impossible. WeChat mainly focus on users privacy and due to that reason it my favorite application. But I feel one thing that is not added yet and that is built it lock. Just like WhatsApp and QQ International Messenger. I am giving 5 Starts as a satisfied used and hoping to consider my review.

Blocked!!! Impossible. Once you are blocked in this app it is impossible to unblock. I have have been blocked for close to a month now. I have tried to contact the app support several times and have had no contact back. I have uninstalled and installed the app several times with no luck. It says I have a self service unblock capable. But when when ever I get to the last steps it says wrong password or the sms was not received. I can’t ask anyone for help because most people I know who use wechat are on the mainland of China and I only had their info on WeChat. Really if you can’t respond and help the users in the U.S. then you shouldn’t offer it to us.

The best social media. This is the absolute best chatting app ever created. It is very easy to use to chat individual person or a group. The moment feature is also very useful, especially that you can block certain people from seeing certain moments 😉 I love the emojis in WeChat, there’s multiple very useful sets of emojis and you can always add any emojis of you choice. The money transfer feature is also very useful, and is not present in any other chatting apps. This is the best chat app ever.

Connection problems for foreign WeChat accounts when in China. I’ve got an American WeChat account with an American phone number. When travelling to Mainland China payment with WeChat pay (money already on the phone) takes 30 seconds. Sending a map link doesn’t load the map. One needs to connect to a VPN to use map links in China with a foreign accounts. Loading chat messages takes 30 seconds on an iPhone 15 Pro. That’s just ridiculous. Apparently connections to foreign WeChat (Tencent) servers are slowed down or blocked entirely by the Chinese authorities which affects all foreign WeChat account holders with a foreign phone number residing in China.

We need Dark Theme Not White Theme. App is OK just the same old typical WeChat but I’m not a fan of the newly “White” Theme design. Come on, 2019 is coming in hours and you introduced us a White Theme where almost every other apps are doing Dark Theme!!! Are you kidding me? My eyes are getting tired because of your stupid new theme color you so-called “intuitive design.” I seriously doubt about your design R&D department because they simply don’t do any research. Please improve it or rather give us the freedom of theme choices. Sorry, again I have to take 3 stars off because of this terrible theme color.

Never Using this app again. So, here’s the story, I’m going to China in a few days and decide to make a wechat account. I use my iPhone to make an account so I can log into it on my iPad, I have a bad iPhone and decide to not bring it whatsoever. I go to china, and I think it’s fine. I want to order something for my friends and when I open my wechat account, it was blocked. It showed that it would send an sms to my phone to request an unblock, which was in my house, nowhere near china. I try to see if it could send an sms to my friend’s phone, but yet again, it said that it would only send one to my old phone. Now, I have to wait a whole month, just to get my account, having to always ask for someone to pay for my meal Great System, WeChat

Would love to review the app, but…. I wish I could leave a good review of WeChat, (or any review of WeChat for that matter) but unfortunately since I’ll never be able to use the app I can’t review it. Why can’t I use the app? Because the app requires me (a new user who has never tried this app before) to already know other users in order to sign up and make a login. How can I be expected to know other users when I can’t make an account and get on WeChat to meet other users? What am I supposed to be psychic?? What if none of my rl friends or acquaintances already use it? But the sign up requirement doesn’t stop at just simply knowing another person who already uses the app! This person has to also have used WeChat for over a month, hasn’t completed “Help Friend Register” for other users in the past month, AND hasn’t been blocked in the past month. How am I possibly expected to know someone who meets those requirements when I’ve never used the app?? Most ludicrous sign up requirement I’ve ever heard of, makes it just about impossible for new users to make an account.

Moments load sooo slow!!. About several months ago, the pics and videos from moments started to load so slow. There’s a five second waiting period each time I open up someone’s pic in moments. I’m just staring at the loading icon during this time for the pic to download. I have used the app for years and it’s always been great. This new phenomenon is really annoying and makes me not want to look at anyone’s moments, and this is why I’m giving this a two star. This is the first review I have written in the App Store so you can see this is a huge issue for me!! Please fix it!!!! (I tried clearing cache, updating to latest version, etc but no difference).

Needs reply button !. Overall happy with wechat and how fast it deploys and shares images, media etc. however one crucial deficiency in my (and likely many others’) opinion is the lack of the REPLY button. It’s impossible to hold any sort of long conversation that spreads over multiple topics without struggling over the reply button! Every chatting app nowadays has a reply button for a selected highlighted message so i do not need to copy/paste manually anytime i need to address a part of the dialogue. Currently for every eversoslightly complicated conversation i have to go over to QQ because at least they have Reply button. This is a huge inconvenience.

5-Star App When In China. I first downloaded this app when I was in the US. I assumed it was just a normal chat app because it didn’t have many features when I downloaded it. After going to China and connecting my Chinese bank card with the app, it unlocked so many features. You can literally do everything with this app. Pay your bills, buy train/plane tickets, transfer money, buy movie tickets, get a taxi, order food, find a cleaner... This is definitely the most underrated app in the App Store.

Cancelation nightmare. I was going to use the app to do multiple video chat calls but with the new update on my phone I can already do that so I have no need for the app. Hence, why I want to cancel it. However the app won’t allow me to cancel my account because it keeps claiming I’ve made changes to the account or there’s “strange activities”. I have not made any changes. I tried deleting it two week ago—on the same day I downloaded the app. Now two weeks have passed and today I was trying to delete the app and again it won’t allow me to delete it. I’ve tried contacting their customer support and it directed me to Golden frog and Golden frog says they have nothing to do with the Wechat app. If I can get someone to please help me with this, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!

UNTRUSTWORTHY NEWS IN THE APP. I am a second generation Chinese American. During the Coronavirus pandemic and the recent looting, Wechat served as a platform of giving away misleading news to the Chinese community. The information presented on Wechat news are exaggerated with the purpose of gaining views from its readers. With the inaccurate information, the Asian (specifically Chinese) who use Wechat as their main information provider are put in the state of anxiety and terror. My mother also fell victim to Wechat’s news. Other second generation Chinese Americans can probably relate to me. Due to the misleading information on the app, many of our parents were convinced to buy guns. There should be an authority figure to monitor the news that app users post to guarantee the authenticity of the information.

Account blocked. I'm in the US and was very excited to learn about WeChat, as it provided me a way to communicate with new friends in China. I set up the account, found my 2 friends, and was loving it...for about three days. Then, I got logged out and was unable to log back in. My account was then blocked and, like others have said, it's nearly impossible to get it unblocked. You have to provide information from other WeChat users. I only knew two people on WeChat and I could not access their information since I was blocked from my account. I finally found two people in the US and sent in their Information so they could verify me. Nothing. I've sent multiple emails to WeChat with no luck. So frustrating. Zero stars

WeChat User. I didn’t know about this app until I traveled to China in June/July of 2017. I met a number of people there while I was working. Facebook and other apps were blocked while I was there. I was able to use WeChat to keep in contact with my family in the United States. Now that I’m back home, I’m able to keep in touch with some of the people I met in China. I even had someone call me from China for free using WeChat. The call was crystal clear.

Please let users choose to disable the new tickcle function. I have used WeChat for many years and I usually liked the new functions it developed. However, I do not like the new tickle function. I have accidentally tickled someone in a group chat or someone I’m not familiar with several times. I think it’s really awkward. I have several work-related group chats and I’m always nervous about tickling anyone by accident. Please let users choose to disable this function in the future. Thanks.

User censored without being notified. WeChat censors users arbitrarily. In may cases, users are censored because their messages are considered inconsistent with Chinese government’s messaging, even though those users have not violated user agreement in any form. WeChat also “silences” users without any notifications. When WeChat does so, the impacted users’ messages in a group chat will only be visible to himself/herself, and his/her “Moments” will not be visible to any contacts. However, the users would not know, unless they compare the chat history with other contacts in the same group chat. It seems WeChat’s action has been a serious violation of Apple App Store policies.

Hmmm. I didn’t rate the app cuz I really haven’t used it yet, but right off the bat, I need to say something. So, I went to “mobile friends” to see if anyone in my contacts were on WeChat. I was surprised to find that it had one of my friends listed. The profile pic looked nothing like them, but I figured it was just an online pic that she found and liked, so she used it. However, when I texted her to make sure it was the right person, she said she was NOT on the app, and hadn’t even heard about it. So, I don’t how that happened, and I am wondering if I can even trust this app...

I love using WeChat! Trump you cannot force us not using it!. WeChat is the most convenient and widely used communication app in China and among Chinese who are in abroad. It doesn’t show others whether you read the message or not. Therefore it protect our privacy better than WhatsApp. Also it is multifunctional, combining Facebook, instagram, WhatsApp all together. It deserves its popularity and wide usage. If Trump ban TikTok or WeChat, then he is a most notorious dictator in history.

The best app ever. If you have the app installed, you can literally do anything in one app. Genius design. Not mention free message, video chat, voice message, location pin, scan and pay,find friends near by, make donation to charity, selling or buying goods etc and more, I saw ppl running millions dollars business in this app. Jaw dropping..I wish we have a similar app in US, so we don’t have to download 10+apps to get our jobs done. We used to judge ppl too much ,didn’t realize that we should learn from them on some point. IMHO

TERRIBLE US OTHER APPS. Everything about this app is terrible. From the moment I opened the app I was greeted with a typical sign in or sign up screen ok normal. So I click sign up then put in my info. Then I had to security check this is where the stupidity was created. Instead of using an sms or email verification you need to have a friend verify you. This friend could not have verified anyone for at least a month previous. There customer service is bad overall starting with the website and the unresponsive email and text. In my opinion if you want a free app that does the same thing go use WhatsApp or telegram both great apps with good customer service and easy straightforward sign up services.

Incomptible with Apple Watch series 3 and iPhone X. So I basically have 2 problems: 1. My iwatch series 3 works fine with my previous iPhone 6s. When in switch to iPhone X, I cannot view any WeChat message from watch. I get notifications but cannot open it. It prompted me to restart phone and turn off wechat on watch to reset, but still does not work after multiple times. Very inconvenient and I don’t know if it’s a watch problem or a phone issue. 2. The help and feedback section on phone version wechat is not completely visible. The bottom section that allows people to input feedback is completely blocked by the bottom swipe control of the iPhone X, and there is no way to access the bottom buttons of the wechat help page.