Meta-owned WhatsApp, recently launched its new Community feature, allowing users to club up to 20 WhatsApp groups together to form a community. According to The Verge, Communities are designed to house multiple related groups within bigger organizations of people, such as a neighbourhood or a workplace. But soon after the […]
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WhatsApp rolls out beta paid subscription service for business users
Instant messaging and calling service WhatsApp premium subscription service has not officially launched yet; however it is now available for beta users. According to GSM Arena, this means that only the WhatsApp beta program members can access the Premium menu, where all the extra features reside. As per WABetainfo, the […]
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WhatsApp reveals older app versions had a critical vulnerability
WhatsApp has published details of a ‘critical’ vulnerability that has been patched in a newer version of the app but might still affect older installed versions that have not been updated. According to The Verge, the details regarding the vulnerability were revealed in a September update of WhatsApp’s page on […]
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WhatsApp to roll out call links feature, tests 32-person video chats
Instant messaging and calling service Whatsapp will be rolling out a new feature that allows users to share a direct link to a call, making it easier to stay in contact with loved ones. According to The Verge, this feature will start to appear on WhatsApp this week and can […]
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WhatsApp sharing sensitive data with Facebook companies envisaged in its policy: Delhi HC
A division bench of the Delhi High Court which on Thursday had dismissed the appeals of WhatsApp and Facebook challenging a Competition Commission of India (CCI) order calling for an investigation into the messaging apps’ new privacy policy said that the 2021 policy, however, places its users in a “take-it-or-leave-it” situation, virtually forcing its […]
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Delhi HC dismisses Whatsapp, Facebook pleas against CCI probe
The Division bench of the Delhi High Court dismissed the petitions of Whatsapp and Facebook challenging a Competition Commission of India (CCI) order calling for an investigation into the messaging apps new privacy policy. The bench of Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad on Thursday while dismissing both appeals moved by Whatsapp […]
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WhatsApp launches native app for Windows, MacOS version coming soon
WhatsApp is releasing a new native Windows app that does away with the outdated web-based backend, in order to run natively on Windows. According to GSM Arena, WhatsApp users can link a desktop computer to continue making and receiving calls and sending messages without needing to have their smartphone nearby. This is accomplished by using WhatsApp Web in […]
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Whatsapp will now give upto two days to users to delete a message
Users of WhatsApp will no longer have just one hour to delete a message after sending it; instead, they will now have slightly more than two days. According to The Verge, to start using the new feature right now, open up the WhatsApp group or individual chat where you sent the […]
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WhatsApp banned over 2.2 million accounts in June: Report
More than 2.2 million Indian accounts were banned by WhatsApp while 632 grievance reports were received by the messaging platform in June, as per its report titled, “India Monthly Report under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.The report for the month of June has […]
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WhatsApp may allow users to edit messages
Although Twitter does not yet have an edit button, WhatsApp is working on a solution to add a new edit feature to the platform. WhatsApp is testing the edit button on the app’s beta version. A text may only be removed once it has been sent; however, a planned feature […]
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WhatsApp rolls out message reactions feature
The message reactions feature, which was announced last month by WhatsApp, will now be rolled out to its users. According to GSM Arena, it will work similar to how Facebook’s reactions work. The user needs to long-press on a WhatsApp message and select the emoji he or she wants to react […]
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WhatsApp working on multi-device linking feature for phones and tablets
After recently releasing its multi-device feature on WhatsApp beta for Android and iOS, WhatsApp is now working on several improvements to allow users to link another mobile device in the most recent version of the beta. This is a significant advance from the past when multi-devices could only be run via a desktop client or […]
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WhatsApp bringing big improvements to voice messages
Instant messaging platform WhatsApp is bringing some major improvements to its voice messages feature. As per GSM Arena, the company said that 7 billion voice messages are being exchanged between users every day on WhatsApp. Hence, the users will be getting support for pausing a recording of a voice message, […]
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WhatsApp testing 2GB file size transfer limit
WhatsApp is testing a 2GB cap for file transfers between users of the instant messaging platform. As per MacRumors, WhatsApp’s file-sharing capabilities have become a key feature of the service, and the app has included the ability to share media files within conversations since 2017, but its 100MB file size limitation hasn’t […]
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WhatsApp rolls out emoji reactions in Android beta
Meta-owned encrypted messaging service WhatsApp has started rolling out emoji reactions in beta on Android. WABetaInfo stated that emoji reactions have started appearing in beta version 2.22.8.3 of the service’s Android app, The Verge reported. The Message Reactions feature includes 6 emoji reactions namely – Like, Love, Laugh, Surprised, Sad and Thanks. WhatsApp appears […]