The development of WhatsApp never stands still. Users can look forward to a total of five new features. What improvements will be introduced to Messenger.
Kassel – The instant messaging service Whatsapp is still the most popular messenger app in the world and, for most people, is of course one of the most important means of organizing everyday life. Loud Statesman the number of monthly active users of the messenger worldwide is around two billion.
In addition to a new Whatsapp innovation for more data protection, the five new functions all bring changes to the status messages on Whatsapp. As from the in-house blog entry As of February 7th, it includes the following improvements:
- Choosing a Private Audience: With the update you can now decide who you want to show the status to. So you have the possibility to individually adjust the group of people for each individual status by either explicitly excluding certain contacts or only granting the view to individual people.
- Language status: In the future, the status can be stored with a 30-second voice message for contacts. What was previously known from private conversations and chats can now also be used for a status message.
- Status Reactions: With this function you can react quickly and easily to the status message – either with one of the eight emojis or with a text, voice message, sticker or similar.
- Status profile rings for new messages: With this function, you will not miss any status reports from the contacts. This ring appears around the contact’s profile picture when the person shares a status update.
- Link previews in status: An innovation that affects recipients of status messages. When a link is posted in the status, a visual preview of the link content is automatically displayed, just like sending a message. In this way, the recipient can get a picture of the stored website before he or she clicks on it.
Whatsapp: Innovations are released step by step – but the messenger also harbors dangers
According to the company, the announced updates will already be rolled out to users worldwide and will be available to everyone in the coming weeks.
When installing Whatsapp, experts often warn of four, malware and new scams. A new perfidious scam on Whatsapp is currently making headlines. So you can be hacked while you sleep. (Vivian Werg)
