The platform has been adding new features to its app in order to improve the user experience.
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The instant messaging platform has been adding new features to its app in order to improve the user experience. Therefore, many of the new features provide benefits and facilities to people while they perform other tasks on WhatsApp.
On the other hand, many of them also have to do with a larger plan by Meta, the company that owns WhatsApp, to avoid false news.
These are some of the novelties that arrived during this year:
1. Pause voice recordings
The platform added to its tools the option to pause the voice notes that a user records. This is useful when users have been interrupted while communicating with someone else through voice notes.
In this way, the user will be able to finish recording the note just by pressing the microphone icon. Once this is done, the note will continue to record as if it had not been paused.
2. Play audios outside the chat
This option has been praised by many, because by being able to listen to the recording outside the chat, users can respond to other conversations while the note continues to play. A multitasking tool.
3. More limitations for forwarded messages
The beta version of WhatsApp began a few days ago by limiting the forwarding of messages in order to combat misinformation, in this way the messages that have already been sent can only be sent to five individual chats and at most there can only be one group.
4. Reactions with emojis
The reactions were one of the most anticipated novelties by users, they work just like in the messenger chat. Users long-pressing on a message will see several options for reactions to the text. Between sad face, thumbs up, among other emojis. The alternative is just being incorporated and to obtain it you just have to have the updated application.
Cell phones on which WhatsApp will stop working from October:
WhatsApp will stop working on iOS 10 and iOS 11, as well as Apple phones that are unable to update to iOS 12, such as the iPhone 5 and 5c, starting October 24.
The instant messaging application usually stops supporting some versions of Android and iOS operating systems considered obsolete. This practice allows WhatsApp to keep updating and introducing new features.
In this case, as the specialized portal WABetainfo anticipates, WhatsApp will no longer be compatible with the version of the operating system iOS 10 and iOS 11. In addition, it will also stop working on iPhone 5 and 5c, as it cannot be updated to iOS 12 .
The change means that all users with an iPhone 6 onwards will still be able to access WhatsApp, but they will need to update the version of the operating system to iOS 12 to do so.
WhatsApp will stop supporting these phones and versions of iOS as of October 24. For its part, the app’s Help Center recommends users to use iOS 12 and newer versions if they want to have guaranteed access to the application.
It should be remembered that this is not the only novelty reported by the messaging company owned by Meta this month, since on May 18 it also reported on a new function that will allow users to silently leave a group, notifying only the administrator or the administrators of these group chats instead of all the contacts that are part of them.
Currently, when a group member leaves a group chat, the instant messaging app notifies everyone in that chat that they have left the chat.
Now, WABetaInfo has warned in the WhatsApp beta version for desktop a change in this system, since the company is working on a new functionality that exclusively notifies the administrator or administrators of a group when a member of the group chat leaves it.
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