In 2024, around 81 percent of 18 to 19-year-olds said that WhatsApp was one of the most important apps on their smartphone. The social messaging service was actually the most popular app among all teenagers.
Up to three mentions; apps with three percent and more (total)
Method of interview
Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI)
Supplementary notes
JIM is a series of surveys published by the South-West Media Education Research Association (Medienpädagogische Forschungsbund Südwest), which is supported by the Regional Office for Communication Baden-Württemberg (Landesanstalt für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg (LFK)) and the Regional Office for Media and Communication Rhineland-Palatinate (Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation Rheinlandpfalz (LMK)). The surveys are developed in cooperation with SWR Media Research (SWR Medienforschung), the Association for Newspaper Market Research (Zeitungsmarktforschung Gesellschaft (ZMG)), the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung), as well as its regional offices in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, and the Reading Foundation (Stiftung Lesen).
The source does not provide information on the original wording used during the survey. Thus, the wording chosen for this statistic may differ slightly from the one in the survey.
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