It’s been a busy few months for WhatsApp. In February, the app’s long-awaited dark mode arrived, accompanied by a tongue-in-cheek video soundtracked by a rare recording of Paul Simon’s The Sound of Silence. It was no small feat — creating a new look for an app used by 1.5 billion […]
Monthly Archives: February 2025
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The battle for instant messaging apps just heated up. Just a day after Snapchat announced a slew of new offerings at its virtual Partnership Summit, news has started trickling in about WhatsApp’s upgraded search capabilities and a slew of other new features. Various reports published on . A blog that […]
WhatsApp recently increased its upper limit for group video calls from four to eight, but for larger group calls it will soon redirect you to Facebook Messenger. At the end of April, Facebook announced Messenger Rooms, a video calling tool that can accommodate up to 50 participants and, most importantly, […]
WhatsApp adds animated WhatsApp is adding new features to its simple yet incredibly popular apps. One of them is animated stickers. While it is extremely popular on several other messaging platforms like Telegram, iMessage, and WeChat, WhatsApp has only supported very basic stickers. WhatsApp will soon roll out its own […]
WhatsApp launches Facebook-owned WhatsApp to integrate digital payments into mobile messaging service, starting in Brazil Facebook on Monday added a digital payment feature to its WhatsApp messaging service, starting in Brazil but with an eye on expanding globally. WhatsApp users in Brazil can use the encrypted mobile messaging service to […]
WhatsApp’s new privacy Millions of WhatsApp users have started receiving a notification from popular messaging service platform WhatsApp asking them to accept its new terms of service and privacy policy by February 8, or lose access to the app. The Facebook-owned platform’s in-app notification, sent to Android and iOS users, […]
This Friday, March 10, 2017, file photo shows the WhatsApp communications app on a smartphone in New York City. Encrypted messaging apps Signal and Telegram are seeing huge increases in downloads from Apple and Google’s app stores in early January 2021, while WhatsApp’s growth is down following a privacy fiasco […]
WhatsApp developers have been hard at work developing new features for the messaging app and making tweaks to iron out its quirks — from dark mode to animated stickers — but what’s next? WABetaInfo experts specialize in combing through the latest WhatsApp betas for signs of new tools and changes […]
Dutch computer scientists have assessed the value of the mobile communication platform Whatsapp in the context of social support. The research seems quite relevant in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic that has forced countless people to work entirely remotely, usually from home, engage with their doctors and other […]
WhatsApp’s Next Big There’s a lot to like about WhatsApp, but also a few drawbacks that can rub users the wrong way. Thankfully, the app is in constant development, so you can bet that if a particular feature is missing or doesn’t work the way you want it to, there’s […]