Xchat, The Standalone App For Messaging On X, Is Available On Ios Now

XChat, nan standalone app for accessing X's messaging feature, is disposable to download now for iOS. X first suggested it would beryllium stripping nonstop messaging from X successful 2025, but astatine slightest for now, XChat is disposable successful nan original X app, nan web and this caller app.

Based connected its motorboat video, nan caller XChat app offers galore of nan elements of modern messaging X had already introduced to its chats feature, for illustration nan expertise to delete and edit messages, artifact screenshots and nonstop disappearing messages. The caller XChat app besides supports video and audio calls, and X claims that each messages sent pinch XChat are end-to-end encrypted.

XChat will besides beryllium expected to beryllium nan location of immoderate groups that formed astir X's Communities feature. The societal level recently announced that it was retiring Communities astatine nan extremity of May, and suggested that XChat's support for larger group chats could beryllium a worthwhile alternative. XChat's group chats tin presently person 350 participants, but X plans to grow that number successful nan future.

Elon Musk's original transportation aft he rebranded Twitter arsenic X, was to move nan level into an "everything app," wherever things for illustration an algorithmic feed, messaging, job boards and moreover payments could beryllium side-by-side. A standalone messaging app seems for illustration nan nonstop other of that, but it mightiness besides bespeak wherever X finds itself successful 2026. The institution is now a subsidiary of xAI, and xAI itself is portion of SpaceX. Musk's push into AI appears to beryllium nan going concern, and cloning thing for illustration WeChat mightiness conscionable beryllium little important.