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Arpit Sharma August 6th, 2018 4:46 PM 2 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Building a Team in India to Fight Spam and Stop the Circulation of Fake News

WhatsApp has informed the government that it is building a local team, including India's head, as part of steps to check fake news circulation but has not met the key demand of identifying message originators, according to official sources. The popular messaging app is under fire over abuse of its platform for circulation of fake news that has incited mob fury. The IT Ministry official said that WhatsApp has responded... Read More

Arpit Sharma August 6th, 2018 11:23 AM 2 COMMENTS

WhatsApp for iOS Receives the Forwarded Tag and Forward Limit for Messages

This year WhatsApp has been making quick and significant updates to its application on both Android and iOS. Many updates have been brought because of the application’s popularity in India. Notably, WhatsApp also remains the most used messaging platform in the world and is owned by the Social Media giant Facebook. In the light of recent events which happened in India, it was revealed that WhatsApp acted as a catalyst... Read More

Chakri K August 3rd, 2018 7:26 PM 3 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Spotted Testing Picture-in-Picture Mode for Android

WhatsApp is working on one of the much-anticipated features for Android- Picture-in-Picture (PiP). The feature, which is already present on Apple iPhones, once rolled out, will allow users to watch YouTube or Instagram videos right in the WhatsApp application itself. Wondering how? Well, here's why the feature is named as the Picture-in-Picture mode. Once the feature gets rolled out to the public, users can chat and watch YouTube or Instagram... Read More

Arpit Sharma August 2nd, 2018 1:13 PM 0 COMMENTS

WhatsApp to Relocate GIF Button on WhatsApp Web to Make Room for New Features

WhatsApp has been making quick updates to its Android and iOS apps as of late and has launched lots of exciting features like the ‘forwarded’ tag, mark as read and much more. Now it seems that WhatsApp will move its focus towards the desktop based WhatsApp Web which launched in 2015 for users who wanted to use WhatsApp on their desktop. The company is talking about moving the GIF button... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 31st, 2018 11:03 AM 0 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Completes the Rollout of Group Voice, Video Calling to its 1.5 Billion Users

WhatsApp, on Tuesday, announced that it has rolled out its group calling feature for both voice and video options on iOS and Android devices for its 1.5 billion users. The group calling feature supports up to four people simultaneously. "You can make a group call with up to four people total -- anytime and anywhere. Just start a one-on-one voice or video call and tap the new "add participant" button... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 30th, 2018 2:20 PM 1 COMMENTS

6 Most Interesting and Useful Features Introduced by WhatsApp This Year

This year WhatsApp has brought some drastic and much-awaited changes on-board. The Facebook-owned company has been known to launch updates for its instant messaging apps in close proximity to each other. 2018 has been an intense year for WhatsApp updates since users got to see some pretty exciting additions to their favourite messaging app. WhatsApp’s simple UI, ads-free environment and freeware usage have helped the company to become the biggest... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 25th, 2018 5:50 PM 0 COMMENTS

WhatsApp for iPhone Now Allows Users to Send Group Messages Using Siri

WhatsApp has rolled out a new update for iPhone users which bumps the version of the instant messaging app to 2.18.80. Under this new update, WhatsApp has extended the Siri support within the app to allow users to send group messages by just using their voice. Initially, WhatsApp started supporting Siri in 2016 when users were allowed to send individual messages using their voice, now the same feature is available... Read More

Chakri K July 20th, 2018 8:21 PM 0 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Beta 2.18.221 for Android Brings Suspicious Link Detection Feature

WhatsApp is fastening things to curb spam and misinformation on the platform. As we reported earlier, WhatsApp has now rolled the Suspicious Link Detection feature for Android Beta users. The new feature has been rolled out to the users with the latest beta version 2.18.221. The feature has been rolled out globally for all the beta users on Android. Basically, this feature scans incoming messages which contain links and if... Read More

Chakri K July 20th, 2018 9:47 AM 14 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Removes Quick Forward Option for Media Messages, Limits Forwarding a Message to 5 Users

WhatsApp has posted a new blog post revealing the changes it's going to make for forwarding messages option. According to WhatsApp, people in India forward more messages, photos and videos than any other country in the world, which is the reason why WhatsApp is facing some backlash from the Indian government as the spam and misinformation spreads very quickly. Going forward, WhatsApp users in India will be able to forward... Read More

Chakri K July 19th, 2018 9:04 PM 0 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Web Bug Shows Last Seen Status Even When Set to Hidden

WhatsApp users on the Web version are encountering a strange bug as they are able to see their contacts last seen even if their privacy is set to nobody. This issue seems to exist with the WhatsApp Web version at the moment as we have encountered the same. However, WhatsApp watcher, WABetaInfo posted on Twitter that WhatsApp for Android also has the same issue, but we did not encounter the problem... Read More

Arpit Sharma July 17th, 2018 6:55 PM 0 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Mute Feature Extended to All Beta Users on Android

WhatsApp was last seen testing the ‘Mute’ and ‘Mark as Read’ feature on its beta version. Now the Facebook-owned messaging app is extending the functionality to all of its beta users. Users who wish to see the functionality in action will have to be using the latest WhatsApp Beta version. Also, new detail about the feature has come up which tells us that the option will only be available once... Read More

Chakri K July 15th, 2018 5:37 PM 4 COMMENTS

Here is How You Can Mark a WhatsApp Message as Read Without Opening the App

WhatsApp has launched yet another update which brings two new functionalities on board the beta version of our favourite instant messaging platform. This new update which has been rolled out to the Beta users of the applications ups the version to 2.18.214, which accompanies two new features- ‘Mark as Read’ and ‘Mute notifications’ in the Android notification panel itself. WABetaInfo broke the news about the two new features which were... Read More