WhatsApp news of the week: overview of new features available for voice and video calls
If you didn’t have time to read our stories posted this week about the recent updates of WhatsApp beta for Android, iOS, and Desktop, this is the right time to do it thanks to our summary. We announced 8 features and the best news of the week is about an overview of features for calls released this year!
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- What’s new in the WhatsApp for iOS 22.24.81 update? WhatsApp is widely rolling out communities, polls, and profile icons within group chats to more users!
- After releasing the WhatsApp beta for Windows 2.2250.4.0 update, we noticed that WhatsApp is rolling out the ability to disable notifications for calls to some beta testers.
- In the article about the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.1.5 update, we announced that WhatsApp was rearranging privacy and avatar entry points within WhatsApp Settings.
- An official overview of new features for voice and video calls is available: it is about 32-person calls, message or mute participants in a call, call links, voice waveforms, in-call banner notifications, and picture in picture on iOS. Since there is no other major news, this is the best news of the week:
- WhatsApp is releasing two sticker packs available to certain users: A day of a Human and Bigg Boss 16!
- We discovered that WhatsApp is working on three new large heart emojis for a future update of the Android beta app.
- WhatsApp plans to announce that some features are not available for linked devices within a new section introduced in WhatsApp Settings, for a future update of WhatsApp beta for Android.
- Thanks to the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.1.11 update, we discovered that WhatsApp keeps working on improving the support for keeping disappearing messages by adding a new chat event, for a future update of the app.
And our community announcement group reached 5000 participants on WhatsApp! Thank you!
Stay tuned for more WhatsApp news and updates coming next week!
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