WhatsApp: Here’s a rundown of all the most recent WhatsApp changes, including the ability to transfer chat history from iOS to Android.
WhatsApp notifications are frequently received in a frenzy. That’s not surprising, given that it’s the most popular chat app on the planet, with an estimated 2 billion users sending messages every month.
As a result, the Facebook-owned site is continually being improved and modified, with new features added and privacy rules and functionality tweaked on occasion.
If you’re a WhatsApp devotee, it’s worth staying up to date on the app’s most recent improvements and modifications, as well as any upcoming additions and tweaks.
News About the Latest Whatsapp Updates (Updated January 7)
WABetaInfo has uncovered that version 2.22.1.1 of the WhatsApp beta for iOS will include profile images in message alerts after doing some digging.
Currently, WhatsApp on iOS only shows the sender’s name, and depending on your notification settings on iOS 15, it will just state “notification” underneath the name instead of providing a preview of the message’s content.
This isn’t going to change, however, having a profile photograph of the sender associated with a notification gives a little more dynamism to the notifications.
It may also make it easier for users to quickly determine who has messaged them; reading text at speed while walking down a busy street isn’t always straightforward.
It’s unclear when this suggested feature will be accessible in the full version of WhatsApp, but it’s a sign that the messaging app is already planning a year of new features.
Before you send a WhatsApp voice message, you may now preview it.
WhatsApp will now allow users to preview their voice messages on the instant messaging service before sending them, following the completion of a beta phase.
At the risk of stating the obvious, the new function will help you avoid sending something with a vocal mistake or an overly-complicated and lengthy voice message.
This function also allows you to reflect on what you’ve said before sending it, which is a type of personal social safety measure for those of you who can send stinging messages when you’re feeling feisty or hot-headed.
“You may send your departing message with confidence by seeing a draught of a voice recording before you send it,” WhatsApp says.
News About the Latest Whatsapp Updates (Updated January 7)
WABetaInfo has uncovered that version 2.22.1.1 of the WhatsApp beta for iOS will include profile images in message alerts after doing some digging.
Currently, WhatsApp on iOS only shows the sender’s name, and depending on your notification settings on iOS 15, it will just state “notification” underneath the name instead of providing a preview of the message’s content.
This isn’t going to change, however, having a profile photograph of the sender associated with a notification gives a little more dynamism to the notifications.
It may also make it easier for users to quickly determine who has messaged them; reading text at speed while walking down a busy street isn’t always straightforward.
It’s unclear when this suggested feature will be accessible in the full version of WhatsApp, but it’s a sign that the messaging app is already planning a year of new features.
Before you send a WhatsApp voice message, you may now preview it.
WhatsApp will now allow users to preview their voice messages on the instant messaging service before sending them, following the completion of a beta phase.
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At the risk of stating the obvious, the new function will help you avoid sending something with a vocal mistake or an overly-complicated and lengthy voice message.
This function also allows you to reflect on what you’ve said before sending it, which is a type of personal social safety measure for those of you who can send stinging messages when you’re feeling feisty or hot-headed.
“You may send your departing message with confidence by seeing a draught of a voice recording before you send it,” WhatsApp says.
14 October: Whatsapp May Soon Allow You to Manage Your Rogue Chat Backups
One annoyance with WhatsApp is that if you don’t keep track of your conversation backups, they may quickly grow in size, especially if you’re in a group chat where people exchange a lot of photographs and videos.
Backups can grow to reach gigabytes in size, making switching phones and restoring chats a time-consuming operation.
That may soon change, as WABetaInfo dug deep into the latest WhatsApp beta and discovered a feature called “Manage backup size” that gives users more control over what gets backed up, as well as a real-time estimate of the size of a prospective backup before it’s conducted.
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This appears to be a really useful function and one that we would expect Facebook to implement on WhatsApp rather than just test.
End-to-end Encrypted Backups Are Now Available in Whatsapp Beta for Ios
Your WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted, which means that only you and the person (or persons) to whom you sent them may read them.
Your iCloud backups, on the other hand, aren’t as safe. They’re encrypted, but because they’re not end-to-end encrypted, Apple could decrypt them if they so desired.
However, WABetaInfo discovered end-to-end encrypted backups on WhatsApp for iOS.
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This means that the user owns the decryption keys, which ensures that your communications are safe if someone gains access to your iCloud account.
There’s no news on when it’ll leave beta, but it doesn’t mean you’ll have to wait long to add that extra layer of protection to your talks.
September 15: for Those Instances When You Can’t Listen in, Whatsapp Will Allow You to Transcribe Voice Notes
Voice notes can be helpful, but only if you can listen to them. If you can’t, they’re essentially useless, which may be why WhatsApp is allowing you to transcribe them.
The functionality, which was first detected on iOS by WABetaInfo and then verified by WhatsApp, would submit audio to be transcribed and returned in a readable format.
Instead of being transmitted to Facebook’s parent corporation, which is known for not caring about user privacy, iOS data will be given to Apple.
This functionality, it’s assumed, would send Android voice data to Google instead, but this hasn’t been confirmed.
Unfortunately, this feature is still in the “very early stages of design and prototyping,” according to WhatsApp. As a result, it won’t be arriving anytime soon.
Whatsapp Is Getting Two of the Most Requested Features on Android on August 14th
Although WhatsApp can do a lot, there are still a lot of things that consumers wish it had. Two of these, thankfully, are on their way: the ability to transfer chat history between Android devices and improved multi-device compatibility.
Transferring conversation history on Android is presently scheduled as a timed-Samsung exclusive, with Samsung phones expected to arrive in the next weeks.
It will, however, be available on other Android phones shortly – we simply don’t know when.
August 10: a New Whatsapp Android Beta Introduces “Adorable” Emojis
WABetaInfo’s regular beta code miners have discovered new emoticons for Android beta WhatsApp users, focusing on compassionate designs.
The new WhatsApp emoticons have emerged in the 2.21.16.10 WhatsApp Android beta, after the Unicode Consortium’s Emoji 13.1 upgrade, which offers 217 new certified universal emojis for others to incorporate or expand upon.
They include new heart emojis that appear to communicate a repaired heart, a burning heart, and close affection between people.
Another appears to be an emoji for someone with their “head in the clouds.” Given that these emoticons are now present on the iOS 14.5 version of WhatsApp, they’re quite likely to make their way to the full Android version of WhatsApp soon.
4th of August: Whatsapp View Everyone May Now Send Photo and Video Communications
WhatsApp has begun rolling out the View Once function, which was previously only available in the beta version (see below), which allows users to have photographs and videos immediately removed once they’ve been viewed.
Such messages will be identified by a new “one-time” icon, letting you know that once you’ve viewed them, they’ll vanish when you close the chat. If you don’t access a View Once photo or video within 14 days of receiving it, it will be erased.
Users can’t save or forward photographs or movies that have been marked as View Once, either.
You must pick View One each time you transmit a video or photo to use the function, which should help you avoid sending photos that you wish the recipient to keep.
Just keep in mind that photo and video recipients will still have time to take a screenshot or use screen recording to capture the footage, so only send View Once messages to trusted friends.
July 28: Whatsapp May Be Working on a Feature That Allows Users to Transfer Their Chat History From Ios to Android
WABetaInfo’s latest code digging has discovered a feature in the WhatsApp beta that allows iPhone users who switch to Android phones to transfer their chat history to their Android phones.
It’s as simple as scanning a QR code in the iOS WhatsApp app or going to the settings menu and selecting the transfer option there, according to reports.
An option like this would make switching from an iPhone to one of our best Android phones much easier. However, there is no clear schedule for when the feature will be included in WhatsApp’s full iOS release.
Hopefully, it will arrive sooner rather than later, as the iPhone 13 may not provide enough of an update over the iPhone 12, prompting some users to go for reported forthcoming phones such as the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3.
20th of July: Whatsapp Now Allows You to Join Group Calls That Have Already Started
WhatsApp has added a new feature that allows users to join a group call that has already begun, even if they first ignored the call.
To join a group call before this, you had to accept the invitation when it was given out at the start of the call. However, you may now simply go to the Calls tab and join from there.
Whatsapp’s Vanishing Messages Are Now Available in the Ios Beta
According to some digging done by WABetaInfo in the WhatsApp version 2.21.140.9 on Testflight, the newest WhatsApp beta for iOS allows vanishing messages.
This appears to allow users to send photographs and movies that, after being viewed once, effectively self-destruct.
At least until it is rolled out to the full version of WhatsApp, such a feature is likely to be useful for users who are concerned about their privacy.
However, this feature isn’t foolproof because recipients of the message can screenshot it and save it for later.
Users must enable the view once feature, and because it is still in beta, you may have to wait for it to be introduced to your WhatsApp beta. If you aren’t a part of the beta program, you may be out of luck because it is now filled.
12 July: Whatsapp Has Discovered a Way to Improve the Quality of Your Images and Videos
According to a new feature noticed by WABetaInfo in the newest WhatsApp beta, the messaging service may be getting a “best quality” option for transmitting photographs and videos.
If you have a cellular or Wi-Fi connection, this appears to be a means to transfer high-quality photographs and movies, as the name suggests.
1 July: According to Reports, Whatsapp Is Testing “View Once” Messages
According to a report from WABetaInfo, WhatsApp may be moving into Snapchat-style ephemeral messaging, with the rollout of a new “View Once” feature that will allow users to see certain incoming messages only once before they are erased forever.
Previously, the service offered self-deleting texts, but not with such a short viewing window.
The View Once feature is currently rolling out for specific beta testers on WhatsApp beta for Android 2.21.14.3, according to WABetaInfo.
The sender will be notified when the communication has been viewed. The message is permanently gone after it is closed.
Whatsapp Is Testing a New Voice Message Feature on June 27
WhatsApp is testing a tweaked version of the voice messages feature, which not only allows users to see a waveform of their voice when recording a message but also allows them to stop a recording to listen back to their message before sending it, according to another beta deep dive by WABetaInfo.
The latter part isn’t possible in the current full version of WhatsApp for iOS or Android, which makes it all too easy to record and send a message without first checking it.
WABetaInfo shared a video of the Voice Waveform feature in action, indicating that it will most likely make it into WhatsApp’s full release.
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