WhatsApp is the world's largest communication platform, followed by all the others, such as WeChat, iMessage, Messenger, Telegram and more. But Meta is constantly trying to bring new features to the app to keep users interested and make communication more enjoyable. Here are the biggest ones WhatsApp recent news.
New emoticons and sticker editor
The app will add emoticons based on the Unicode 15.1 standard, which were introduced in September last year. These include a phoenix, a lime, a mushroom, and several shaking heads, which we can already see in iOS 17.4. However, a sticker editor should be coming soon. It will allow you to create them from any images, as is already the case. iOS can
Text formatting
WhatsApp already offers it to some extent, although not through a menu but by using the appropriate character before the text. So if you put an asterisk before and after the text, you will get bold text, with an underscore, the given text will be italicized. Now, when you put a dash before it, you will have a bulleted list, if there is a one with a dot before it, you will get a numbered list. There have also been added varianty suitable for developers.
Screenshot
The platform removed the ability to save other people's profile pictures years ago, and now it's adding a ban on taking a screenshot in order to somehow save someone's profile photo. If you try to do this, the application will just tell you that you cannot take a picture due to restrictions. However, the other party will not know about your attempt to take a printscreen. Of course, there will still be one option to save the profile picture of others. You just need a second device to take a picture of the screen of the first one.
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5 pinned conversations
WhatsApp has been allowing you to pin up to three conversations to a card for several years Chatand one message per conversation. However, the first limit is now being increased to five conversations, and the second limit should eventually change as well. It will ask you to specify how long you want to pin a message, from 24 hours to 30 days. You should be able to specify up to three messages per conversation.
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Chatthird party
WhatsApp on the function chatthird-party applications are working to comply with the new European Union legislation. In this regard, the platform is preparing a separate section for them, where you will also see those from networks such as Signal, Telegram, etc., and you will also be able to respond to them (if you wish). Although end-to-end encryption must be maintained in interoperable messaging systems, third-party applications may use different encryption. As a result, they will chatThird-party apps will be listed in a different inbox and provide users with more versatile communication options.
Adam Kos