X begins testing standalone X Chat app on iOS
Social network X is bringing its private messaging service, dubbed X Chat, to a standalone app. The company on Monday said the initial beta of the X Chat app was being made available to 1,000 users through Apple’s TestFlight testing platform. The beta program had reached full capacity two hours after the announcement. According to an X post by xAI product designer Michael Boswell, the company will expand the beta beyond the initial 1,000 users “soon,” though he didn’t offer an ETA. “For the past few months, we’ve been quietly building a standalone X Chat app for iOS,” Boswell wrote on X. “Use it. Break it. We want your feedback,” he said. X Chat is X’s upgraded version of X’s existing DM (direct messages) feature, which the company claims is end-to-end…
