even the english interface isn't great. they haven't fully translated/globalized all menus, dialogs, and features. i often get chinese dialog options popping up

even the english interface isn't great. they haven't fully translated/globalized all menus, dialogs, and features. i often get chinese dialog options popping up that were arrived at via actions in english. as a chat app, wechat isn't even that great. you have to manually select the high quality option for pictures and then manually download pictures. whatsapp does this automatically in the background. there is no backup feature like whatsapp that i am aware of. signing up and verifying is also a little confusing. wechat is generally worse than whatsapp in slow/bad connection scenarios. in my opinion, wechat will never be popular outside of china because it is basically a chinese app os inside your phone. wechat's power only becomes apparent when actually in china where basically anything you do from payments to booking travel to riding the metro can be done from wechat.