The last major change in WhatsApp was seen in the form of Status tab. The company had replaced the old text message status tab with a new status tab where users could set videos, pictures and gif images as their status. But many users around the world demanded to bring back the old text status, and after a few days the company had to bring back the text status. There are many features like audio calls, video calls which have made the WhatsApp experience better than ever.
The company is constantly trying to provide new features. And under this effort, many new features are being tested on the WhatsApp beta version. Recently, the feature of paying bills from WhatsApp was revealed. Apart from this, WhatsApp has also been testing the message revoke feature for several months. Learn about the features that were recently spotted on the beta app and are expected to be rolled out to general WhatsApp users in the near future.
Pay bills through WhatsApp!
Instant messaging app WhatsApp is planning to foray into digital payment service in India. This will be the first such service in the world by Facebook-owned company WhatsApp. The company has advertised for the position of Head of Digital Transactions in the country.
In a recent report, it was said that the job advertisement given on WhatsApp’s website said that the company is looking for a candidate with a technical and financial background, who is responsible for India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and BHIM. Should have understanding of Payments App. Money is transacted using the mobile number from these payment services. The company needs its Digital Transaction Lead for India.
Message Revoke Feature
There have been reports of WhatsApp testing the message revoke feature for the past several months. Earlier, the new feature was spotted in the WhatsApp iPhone app that allows users to edit or delete messages sent to a contact.
It is claimed that a new update has been released on WhatsApp Web and the revoke feature has been found in it. Apart from this, it has been claimed that users will now be able to ‘unsend’ sent messages within five minutes. It seems that WhatsApp plans to launch the new revoke feature on all its platforms including WhatsApp Web in one go.
whatsapp change number
WhatsApp is testing a feature that will make changing contact numbers less cumbersome for users. WhatsApp is tied to your phone number, so even thinking about changing the number makes many users nervous. After changing the number, you usually give information about it to all your contacts through broadcast, or by pinging your friends about the new number at the time of need. WhatsApp is trying to make this process easy. For this a feature testing is going on which will inform your friends and family about the number change. Apart from this, the live location sharing feature recently introduced by Facebook and Google will also find a place in WhatsApp.
In this feature you will have three options to choose from – share the new number with all contacts, or with the numbers you chat with, or you can choose not to share the new number with any contacts at all. Are. This feature will automatically send notifications to all groups, regardless of which option you have selected. Apart from this, the ‘Change Number’ feature will be already disabled, you will have to activate it while changing the number.
pin to top chat
WhatsApp is testing a new feature that will allow users to keep their favorite chats at the top. Right now this feature is being tested on Android, but there are indications that in the coming time this feature is ready to be released for the general user as well.
As reported in the past, long press on any group or individual chat you want to keep at the top and then select the pin icon visible in the top bar. Along with the PIN, other options are Delete, Mute and Archive. Once a chat is pinned, it will appear at the top of your chat list. No matter how many groups or users you have conversations with, all of them will be visible only after the pinned chat. WhatsApp has given users the facility to pin up to three chats. After this you will get a notification that you can pin only three chats. Apart from this, you can also unpin the chat whenever you want.
Will be able to share multiple contacts at once
WhatsApp is testing a new feature that allows sharing multiple contacts at once. Earlier users could share only one contact at a time, but now this limit has been increased. This feature was seen in the Android beta version and may soon be released to all users. This feature works as before but now instead of a single contact, users can send multiple contacts via WhatsApp or email.
A recent report claimed that if you are sending contacts to multiple users, you will have to go back to the old method of sending contacts. The special thing is that there is no limit for the number of contacts that can be sent to a user and we can send more than 100 contacts to a single user. This feature works in both group and individual chats. Multiple contacts are displayed to the user in a box, when opened, the user can select which contact they want to store on their smartphone. The process is pretty straightforward as sending to multiple contacts at once would fill up the chat feed.