It’s been a while since WhatsApp introduced the ability to make audio and video calls in the app. To make this process even easier, Meta has been experimenting with a new call dialer built into WhatsApp for iPhone that will let users call people who aren’t in their contacts.
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WhatsApp on Thursday announced a series of improvements coming soon to audio and video calls just in time for the holiday season. According to Meta, users can expect better call quality, as well as some other new features – so read on as we detail what’s coming.
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Meta is currently experiencing a major outage across all its platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Messenger, and WhatsApp. As noted by Downdetector.com, there has been a sharp increase in reported outages from users of these various services. Here’s what we know so far.
Update 5 p.m. Eastern: Over four hours into the outage, Meta has restored service for some users but many continue to experience issues and there has been no new update yet.
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WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging app from Meta, has been working on a lot of new features recently. However, at the same time, the platform has been gearing up to release an update that will drop support for some older iPhone models.
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More than a year ago, WhatsApp began testing a new feature for transcribing audio messages into text. The feature was only available to beta users, but starting today, everyone can benefit from voice message transcripts on WhatsApp.
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Meta last year confirmed its plans to finally release an iPad-specific version of WhatsApp right after launching a macOS app rebuilt from scratch. A beta version of the iPad app was released in late September, but a year later, WhatsApp for iPad is still a beta app.
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WhatsApp has been working on a lot of new features recently, and there are more coming soon. The Meta-owned platform will soon let users tag other accounts in Status, WhatsApp’s Stories-like feature.
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WhatsApp on Tuesday announced another update coming for its users. This time, the messaging platform is introducing new camera filters and backgrounds that can be used during video calls. Read on as we detail how WhatsApp’s new effects work.
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WhatsApp last year introduced Channels, a new one-way way to send text, photos, videos, and stickers to multiple people at once. Following an update that brought voice messages and polls to Channels, the feature is now getting an advanced search by category.
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WhatsApp last year launched a new version of its macOS app that was completely rebuilt from scratch. Although users could still use the old Electron-based WhatsApp, Meta has now confirmed that it will soon be discontinued and shut down.
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WhatsApp this week announced an update that will make conversations even more personal and fun. The app now provides animated stickers from GIPHY, the popular GIF platform that was previously owned by Meta.
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A report last year revealed that WhatsApp was working on its own animated emoji, something that its competitor Telegram already has. After introducing the first animated emoji in beta for Android users last month, WhatsApp is now testing its own emoji with iOS users too.
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A recent report revealed that WhatsApp adoption in the US is growing, especially as users look for a better way to chat between iOS and Android devices. Meta has now confirmed that WhatsApp has reached 100 million monthly users in the US – but the company has a huge challenge ahead to keep this number growing.
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It’s been a while since WhatsApp has been working on a feature to let users share files with others without an internet connection, much like Apple’s AirDrop. While this feature was first being tested on Android, it seems that it will also be available to iPhone users.
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Meta this week announced new features for two of its most popular platforms: WhatsApp and Instagram. While WhatsApp is getting a new option that lets users pin their favorite chats, Instagram is adding multi-track audio to Reels.
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Being added to an unknown chat group is certainly unpleasant, and Meta wants its users to know more about these groups. The company announced this week an update for WhatsApp that introduces a feature to help users and give them more context about unknown chat groups they’ve been added to.
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WhatsApp last year introduced the option to let users send “HD photos,” keeping their original resolution with lower compression. However, users had to choose the HD option every time they sent a photo to someone – but not anymore. That’s because WhatsApp is rolling out a new option to set the option to send HD photos as the default.
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Three new WhatsApp video call features are aiming to make the app more competitive with FaceTime – including the company’s own take on SharePlay.
The company also emphasized the recent improvements it made to both audio and video quality …
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WhatsApp on Thursday announced that it is officially releasing an update that introduces a refreshed design for both iOS and Android apps. Users will notice a new color palette and other changes that make the experience of using WhatsApp on both platforms more seamless.
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WhatsApp has been internally testing passkey support in its iPhone app for some time. However, the option was still unavailable to most users. But that seems to be changing now, as Meta is slowly rolling out the passkey option to WhatsApp users on the iPhone with the latest version of the app.
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WhatsApp chat filters are the latest feature to be added to the popular messaging app, a few weeks after allowing users to pin multiple chats. You can now separate out only chats with unread messages, as well as separate group chats from individual ones …
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It’s been a while since WhatsApp introduced the ability to pin a message to a chat, so that it is always visible in that conversation. With the latest version of the app, Meta has introduced a small change to this feature that now lets users pin multiple messages to the same chat.
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WhatsApp on Wednesday released an update that brings new features to its users. More specifically, WhatsApp is adding four new text formatting options to help people “organize and craft their messages.” Read on as we detail exactly what these options are and how to use them.
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The iMessage antitrust threat hanging over Apple has now been removed, as the EU decides that the messaging service does not have enough European users to qualify as a dominant service.
That means that Apple will not be required to support messaging interoperability, which would have allowed messages to be sent between competing chat apps …
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