Meant to post this yesterday as I saw a United app update on my iPhone and it said that free messaging was coming to United WiFi. I was wondering what it included. WhatsApp is hugely important to me.

To the poster above who said they thought WhatsApp was working on United....that's only if you paid for internet while on the plane. It has never worked for free (like it used to on DL but then stopped). So hopefully United is able to get this working correctly. I also don't understand the article that says you can send messages and emojis but not pictures. That must not apply to WhatsApp since everything goes through the same pipe on that app?!

PS - having to update the United app to use external apps like iMessage, FB Messenger and WhatsApp makes no sense to me. I'm guessing they just threw that in there so people would know it's coming but that the United app itself plays zero role in using the other three apps for free across their WiFi.

-RM