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WhatsApp Updates - Why you need to download the latest version for the Best User Experience
What is the first name that comes to mind while talking about messaging apps? It’s WhatsApp, a product of Facebook since 2014. Since you download WhatsApp on your smartphone, can you remember a single day when you didn’t use this app? Please exclude the days of camping where the data connection is not that strong. It’s rare, right? Why shouldn't you? An app that easily sends your message, media files, voice message everything in less than 30 seconds is worth using so much. Let’s keep the discussion of data cycle and privacy of data for later because before, we are going to share some of the updates on WhatsApp that have truly blown the users’ mind.
14 Oct
Features & Updates
- WhatsApp enables you to delete media from others' phones! Don’t get over-excited, you can’t sneak in their gallery and delete photos from there. You can delete those that you sent them over WhatsApp. However, there is a time limit. You can delete a media file that you have sent within the last 7 minutes. After that period, you will lose access to delete that from other’s phone.
- The latest version has introduced new animated stickers that you can use while chatting. Besides, the emoticon pack adds more in almost every update. The QR code to enable WhatsApp Web has also witnessed an update which alleviates the process of switching from phone to desktop within seconds.
- Generally, WhatsApp has the light mode as an interface, but you can change the saame to dark mode by installing the new update. It is for those who want to use an unorthodox interface on WhatsApp.
- Adding people on video calls was a little challenging before on this app. However, the new WhatsApp enables you to add 8 people in one video call. Group video calls are going to be more fun now.
- One of the latest features added to WhatsApp update is the ‘one-time view’ feature of media files. When you send a media file to someone and doesn’t want them to save that, you can enable the ‘one-time view’ feature. This will allow the recipients to view the media file just once and after that, the file will automatically be deleted from their phone.
Get the latest ANDROID version of Whatsapp on Google Play.
iOS users download as always on the App Store.
Despite these useful WhatsApp features many researchers have found many problems with the updates.
There has been a broad media coverage of the alert against this recent spate of dangerous messages. Coded messages bring WhatsApp through an endless crash loop forcing a user to uninstall and reinstall the programme. It can't make text strings by the software – every time you try it crashes. So it's done, as soon as you get the message opened. The only way out is to uninstall the message and block the sender with something other than your mobile. This is quite a problem for such a popular messaging application. In late-stage growth, WhatsApp now has connected devices to sync chat history. This is important for WhatsApp as it improves competitors such as Signal, iMessage and even Facebook Messenger with their existing features. This would mean you should be capable of deleting the message and blocking the sender, and then reopening the app, moving it in the background and synchronizing its database without attempting to make the message risky. Related devices are not yet available, so you can only delete and reinstall your software if you throw your mobile app into an endless crash. However, we can’t simply stop using WhatsApp because we need to stay connected with our friends, family and acquaintances and WhatsApp, being the most popular messaging app has made a space in almost everyone’s phone. Hopefully, they will sort out the problems and take care of the data so that the graph of user experience doesn’t go down.