WhatsApp, the Meta-owned social-media texting platform, has announced that it will now allow users to hide their ‘Last Seen’ activity and status from select contacts. This move is in line with increasing the privacy of the users. Until now, you could either hide the WhatsApp status or last seen activity with everyone or no one. But now, you can pick the specific contacts from whom you want to hide your... Read More
Since late last year, WhatsApp has started rolling out a number of new features aimed at strengthening groups and communities on its platform. WhatsApp is developing a new feature that will allow the group administrators to monitor joining requests through a group membership approval option. The news just comes after Meta’s social messaging platform began rolling out a feature that allows group administrators to add up to 512 individuals to... Read More
One of the big reasons why users fear purchasing an iPhone while using Android is the fear of losing all WhatsApp data. iPhones collect their WhatsApp backup data in iCloud while the Android devices leverage Google Drive. This is the reason why when Android users shift to iPhones, they lose all their data of WhatsApp. But now, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and owner of Meta known for founding Facebook has... Read More
WhatsApp Payments, an online payments system available for WhatsApp users inside the app, is now offering Rs 105 cashback to the users. This is an incentive for the users to leverage WhatsApp Payments for sending money to friends/family/more. For this incentive, the company will have to bear the cost out of its profits. WhatsApp is right now spending money to earn money in the future. Every other online payment app... Read More
There are two types of WhatsApp users. The first one doesn’t care about the chat backup or chat data; the second one doesn’t want to lose a single message. Everyone has their priorities straight, and thus WhatsApp allows users options to back up their chat data. But one thing that users can’t do right now is export the backup data from Google Drive directly via WhatsApp. However, that might soon... Read More
WhatsApp, arguably the biggest online chatting application/platform in the world, is bringing a new feature for the users that will definitely change their whole experience of using the app. The feature we are talking about is a very useful one and something that almost everyone will appreciate. If you have been using WhatsApp very frequently, you know that the app offers the option of deleting a message for everyone once... Read More
WhatsApp Status has become one of the most popular places for users to post links to various websites to share interesting content with their contacts. But the thing is, right now, for users to see what the content is about, they have to click on the link, which then redirects the user to another webpage. But according to a spotting by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is planning to add a ‘Preview’ feature... Read More
One of the biggest pain points for WhatsApp users was that they couldn’t share a file that was very large. For a document, users could only send a file that was 100MB in size. Thus, users had to resort to other applications and platforms for sending big files over to their friends/family/colleagues. But no more now; WhatsApp has finally brought the capability for users to send files to their contacts... Read More
Facebook acquiring WhatsApp for a staggering $22 billion was one of the biggest app acquisitions made in the tech world until recently, when Elon Musk tried to purchase Twitter for $44 billion (still in the process, the deal is not done yet). Regardless, Neeraj Arora, former Chief Business Officer of WhatsApp, expressed his disappointment over the deal. Arora said he “regrets” the deal he help facilitated between WhatsApp and Facebook.... Read More
Telegram, the biggest competitor to WhatsApp and one of the most popular texting applications, might be bringing a Premium model users. The recent iOS beta of the application with version 8.7.2 was released with a new range of reaction emojis and stickers. According to the Telegram Beta Channel, first shared by Gadgets360, these new stickers and reaction emojis are premium in nature. Users will be reportedly asked to sign up... Read More
Every day, there are a ton of people who are shifting to iPhones for the first time in their life. iOS and Android are two very different platforms regardless of being easy to operate. If you are contemplating shifting from Android to iOS yourself, then there are a lot of things you should know. Yes, iPhones are good, and they are pretty fast, but they come at a cost to... Read More
WhatsApp is planning to offer monetary benefits in the form of cashbacks to users to lure new customers into using its payments platform. At the same time, the social media giant is also testing it for merchant payments. This will enable WhatsApp to compete with its rivals, such as Google and PhonePe, which have a major market share in processing the volume of UPI transactions in India. Much recently, the... Read More
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