For billions of people across India, Brazil, Latin America, the UK, and the broader global community, WhatsApp is more than just a messaging app — it is critical daily infrastructure. It is the digital heartbeat of our schools, the communication backbone of our businesses, and the vital thread that keeps our families and friends connected.

Because of this profound global reliance, the tools we use to access WhatsApp must be rock-solid. Unfortunately, the current state of WhatsApp on Windows 11 is failing its users.

The Problem: A Massive Step Backward in Performance
The transition from the deeply integrated Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application to the current Progressive Web App (PWA) / web-wrapper format has been a severe downgrade. Rather than improving the desktop experience, the current Windows 11 application has become a notorious bottleneck for productivity and daily communication.

Users are currently facing critical performance issues, including:

• Unacceptable Resource Consumption: The app routinely operates as a massive memory hog, frequently consuming upwards of 1.5GB of RAM just to run in the background.
• Severe Sluggishness: Navigating between chats, loading media, or simply typing a message is often met with extreme lag and stuttering.
• Constant Freezing & Sync Issues: Users experience frequent application hangs, delayed message deliveries, and painfully slow syncing times, defeating the purpose of an instant messaging platform.

Before this shift, the UWP version of WhatsApp proved that a seamless, fast, and lightweight desktop experience was entirely possible. It was highly optimized, gentle on battery life, and responsive on all tiers of hardware. Today, users are left fighting with an app that drains system resources and frustrates them at every turn.

The Impact on Everyday Users
When WhatsApp struggles to function, our daily lives are impacted. Students miss crucial academic updates, professionals experience delays in time-sensitive workplace communications, and older hardware is rendered almost unusable by the app's bloated resource demands. An application that is vital to the day-to-day operations of billions of people should not cripple the operating system it runs on.

Our Request to Meta
We recognize the complexities of developing for multiple platforms, but the Windows user base is simply too large to be relegated to a sluggish, unoptimized web wrapper. The current desktop experience does not reflect Meta’s engineering capabilities, nor does it respect the needs of its vast global market.

We strongly urge Meta to:

• Acknowledge the widespread performance issues plaguing the current WhatsApp application on Windows 11.
• Develop and deploy a true, native Windows application built from the ground up utilizing modern, efficient frameworks like WinUI 3.
• Prioritize optimization, low memory footprint, and reliable offline-to-online syncing to restore the seamless experience users once had.
• A return to a native application architecture is not just a technical preference; it is absolutely essential for delivering the speed, efficiency, and reliability that your users deserve.

Ensure WhatsApp remains the world’s leading communication platform — not just on our phones, but on our desktops.

Sources:
Windows Latest : WhatsApp is the worst app on your Windows 11 PC right now, eating 1.2GB of RAM doing nothing
Daring Fireball by John Gruber: Meta Replaced the Native Windows WhatsApp App With a S***y Web App
and many many others...

Even Reddit is full of complaints : Reddit

Please sign and demand meta for a Native Whatsapp or a More optimized one.