WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/06/13/whatsapp-is-eating-1-2gb-ram-on-windows-11-even-as-microsoft-kills-web-app-slop/Open linkView original on lemmy.today161
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Doing nothing? More like tracking every single thing you are doing.
It's a competition between the app and the os, to see which can harvest the most data from the user. It is great!
Wait until you go on that internet thing with Chrome.
Yeah if you're a good boy you're gonna get a little tracking as a treat
If your an extra good tracked boi, we will show you one feelgood story in the mix of a gazillion emotionally negative posts.
Windows desperately need a good sandboxing system like Flatpaks and Android apps. User apps should not be able to read all your data unless you authorize them
Nothing? You mean spying on you?
I don’t care how many hoops I have to jump through to get things to work on Linux, I am never going back to microslop. Even trying to get my work laptop switched over. Windows is not worth it
Say that to my Gmail tab in chrome eating up 1.5 on its own
I mean, you could just uninstall it.
WhatsApp is not needed by most people.
And since facebook owns it, I believe, you know, you would be better off without them having access to all of your info.
Then again, I also know that it's pretty much the primary communication and money exchange app app throughout most of the world, so I understand why most people cannot get rid of it.
But if you can, you should.
maybe crypto mining?
Even opening notepad is slow now.
Their thrive on old habits, and it seems unlikely they'd care unless pieces like these are shared a lot and their target audience starts caring (and leaving). For a casual WA user, if WhatsApp, their default application is slow, then their PC is slow. Not to say that Meta could've easily uprooted what software development power it had before Covid and that WhatsApp dev team is just incapable of creating something new and slick or at least make their Electron wrapper app comparable to others' in performance.
Just going to drop this here:
https://www.beeper.com/
I used this for a while, but RAM consumption is even higher, as it needs to run a headless browser with all the web apps in the background. With Whatsapp, Telegram and Instagram it took about 4gb for me. Privacy isn't great, either, as you're adding yet another closed source middle-man in your texting.
Beeper is a great option if you want all your chats unified in a single, customizable, native UI. But it's not better than Whatsapp's native app when it comes to RAM usage or privacy