WhatsApp for iOS just released a new update for public beta testers. With that, WABetaInfo has been able to discover more about the upcoming Community feature. The publication also shared more functions coming to the app.
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It’s almost the end of the year, but there are still features that WhatsApp is readying for launch as soon as possible. One of them is a new interface for voice calls.
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The ability to preview WhatsApp voice messages before sending has now landed, following discovery of the plan back in May.
This solves two of the more annoying issues with sending voice messages in the chat app …
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iPhone users are having a hard time accessing WhatsApp today. For some unknown reason, the iOS app crashes shortly after the user tries to open it, and the issue has been affecting many users around the world for the past few hours.
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WhatsApp is rolling out a new privacy measure that will hide your “Last Seen” status from other unknown accounts that have never chatted with you before. This way, strangers won’t be able to see when the last time you were online on WhatsApp was – or even if you’re currently online.
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While WhatsApp Pay has seen a very slow rollout, as it’s just available in Brazil and India, the company has announced today another payment system option specifically for the US with the ability to transfer cryptocurrency using the app.
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WhatsApp is rolling out a big update for its app on iOS. Starting today, users can choose to use disappearing messages as default, as well as opt for multiple durations of messages for every chat.
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You may have noticed that WhatsApp for iOS now shows a waveform when you’re recording a voice message. Now, the company is testing a new interface that shows exactly the form of your message when it’s sent to the chat.
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WhatsApp is continuing to improve its Stories-like feature called Status. The company is now testing a new “undo” feature for users who have second thoughts about their posts.
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It’s been a few months since WhatsApp started working on a new Reactions feature. Now, a report shows that the app is sill making improvements to this function as it plans to launch it sometime in the future.
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WhatsApp has announced today a native tool for users to make stickers from its web app, with this feature coming to the Desktop version next week.
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After WhatsApp released the ability to choose from different playback speeds for voice messages a few months ago, the app is now working on the same function but with audio messages. Currently, these messages still have to be listened to at a regular speed.
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It’s been quite some time since WhatsApp has been teasing an iPad app. Now, the company is set to release a new macOS app thanks to Apple’s Catalyst project, which is heavily connected to a future iPad app.
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In a new public beta, WhatsApp is adding more options for users to decide who can see their profile photos, last time they used the app, as well as their about page.
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WhatsApp has been teasing multi-device support for a while. Now, users can enable this feature, which is currently in public beta, using their iPhones or Android devices.
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WhatsApp is releasing today another beta version of its app for iOS users. With this update, people will be able to view specific Business account status updates.
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After Facebook announced this week that the brand that will gather Facebook itself, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, and more will be called Meta, the company is now changing the footer of its apps to reflect that.
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WhatsApp has been working on new reaction features for at least a few months. Now, there’s more pieces of evidence regarding the development of this function.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last month announced that WhatsApp end-to-end encrypted backups were on the way for those who like to store backups on cloud services like iCloud and Google Drive. That privacy feature is now “slowly” rolling out for both iOS and Android users.
Actual WhatsApp chats are always end-to-end encrypted, but this new feature means that any backups you choose to make get the same level of protection …
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If you enjoy sending a lot of voice messages on WhatsApp, you’ll be glad to know that the company is working on the ability to pause a voice message and then continue it without the need to record another message or send the one you need to interrupt.
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Almost a month since Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced WhatsApp would receive end-to-end encrypted backups, it looks like the feature is finally rolling out for some beta testers.
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Yesterday’s Facebook outage – which took down Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp as well as the main service – resulted from a mistake by the company’s own network engineers.
The mistake led to all of Facebook’s services being inaccessible, with one analogy likening it to a failure in the “air traffic control” services for network traffic …
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As we’ve covered extensively here at 9to5Mac, Facebook’s suite of applications has been down for hours: Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. If you’re looking for an alternative to WhatsApp for cross-platform encrypted communication, head below for the top choices.
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After releasing different playback speeds for audio messages, WhatsApp is now working on a global voice message player for its app.
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