News & Reviews:   Whatsapp

WhatsApp has been bringing in a slew of features over the past few months. This includes new privacy features, 2GB file sharing, emoji reaction to messages and more. Finally, WhatsApp Communities has arrived and Malaysia is one of the first countries to get early access.

WhatsApp has been actively bringing more new features to group chats. This time, the platform gets spotted with one that allows group admins to delete any messages for everyone. It is already available for the beta testers, as discovered by WABetaInfo, and it's just a matter of time before it gets pushed out to all.

Popular messaging platform WhatsApp recently released a new native app on Windows that no longer requires users to link their phone to send, receive and sync messages. Available for download on the Microsoft Store, WhatsApp has also shared that the Windows app just ‘graduated’ from beta to a final release on the OS.

Popular messaging platform WhatsApp is currently testing out a new feature on the beta version of the app that would allow users to recover messages deleted by mistake. The feature was spotted on the latest version of the app’s Google Beta Programme and gives a limited time period for users to recover any messages that they have deleted.

Mark Zuckerberg has announced a new campaign for WhatsApp in line with the launch of a trio of features. The campaign focuses on the security and privacy features of the messaging app. It'll start in India and U.K. before making its way to the other countries.

Popular messaging platform WhatsApp today announced an update to the app that would allow users to delete messages a little over two days after it was sent. Previously, the option to delete a sent message is only within an hour after it was sent.

Popular messaging platform WhatsApp is currently testing out a new feature on its app in regards to group chats. Spotted on the latest version of WhatsApp beta for iOS, users can now see past participants of their groups at the group info section

WhatsApp is currently rolling out a new feature for its group chat that gives administrators the power to delete messages sent by their group participants. The ability will remove the message for everyone in the group, essentially enabling for better moderation in group chats against unwanted messages.

For the past few months, WhatsApp has been adding a few features such as emoji reactions, increase voice call group members and others. However, one of the last features that the company is planning to update is increasing the file size and it may be coming soon.

WhatsApp has rolled out another most-requested feature, allowing Android users to transfer their chats to iOS devices. Migrating chat data from iOS to Android was made possible with the release of the iPhone-to-Android chat migration tool about a year ago. Therefore, we're glad that the platform finally figured out how to let the users do it the other way around.