News & Reviews:   Whatsapp

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp may be adding a new fun and cool capability soon - Animated Avatars. This is after the feature was spotted on the Android beta versions of the app.

Some people love WhatsApp Web for its convenience, while some might be discouraged because of its QR feature. In one of its recent updates, the WhatsApp team have enabled the WhatsApp Web to be linked to your phone number for a better user experience.

WhatsApp Stickers have been a thing since 2018, making our chat on the app more colourful and fun. Now, the Meta-owned messaging platform is further improving the feature with Stickers suggestions based on the emoji that you’re planning to key in.

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is in the midst of testing a new feature that would allow users to filter conversations based on categories. Spotted in the latest version of the WhatsApp beta for Android, read on to find out more about the function.

At the end of June 2023, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said it will take legal action against Meta for not cooperating to remove scam ads on Facebook. But that has been resolved, as announced by our Minister of Communications and Digital, YB Fahmi Fadzil. 

When switching to a new phone, one of the trickiest steps is data migration. For WhatsApp, you normally have to use online transfer for your chat and images. But now, you can also use a new local data transfer feature.

If you heard about a Pink WhatsApp application, DON'T DOWNLOAD IT. Well, that's the announcement from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) this morning, sending a warning to the public about the malware app. 

There's been a recent spate of high-profile cases where the history of social media, Internet browsing or even chats have been used to expose the wrongdoings of certain individuals. While we'd be the first to recommend, if you don't want to get caught doing bad things, then DON'T DO BAD THINGS in the first place, but... your social media, internet browser, and chats can all contain a lot of personal information. 

If you're concerned about your privacy, or if you just want to start fresh, you can clean up your data by following these steps. Check out our guide on How to Clean your Social Media, Internet Browser and Chats below.

It's not common to be annoyed or puzzled whenever you get an unknown number calling or messaging you on WhatsApp. So to improve privacy further, the WhatsApp team added two new updates - Silence Unknown Callers and Privacy Checkup.

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp may be adding a feature that users have always been asking for. Spotted in its latest Android beta version, WhatsApp is currently testing a multi-account feature on the app.