News & Reviews:   Whatsapp

Yesterday, many of us found the PCs linked to our WhatsApp account suddenly unlinked. Well, that's because the company finally made an update to the Linked Devices feature. That's right, by now you've probably noticed that Multi-device is finally available to us.

One-to-one and group chats are secured with end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on WhatsApp. However, the cloud backups of the chats were not until now. It's finally announced that the messaging platform will also offer E2EE on chat backups for users, which means literally no one can access your chats now without the encryption key.

In Malaysia, a lot of WhatsApp users like to send voice messages instead of text messages. That's not always good, especially if it's an important discussion and you want to keep a record. But what if you can transcribe the voice message?

We're getting more and more features for WhatsApp in recent weeks. It's reported that the company is looking to add message reactions, and recently the feature to transfer your chat history from iOS to Android was added. WhatsApp is also reworking some old features.

A few weeks back, we got the news that WhatsApp was working on a new iOS-to-Android feature. It wanted to make it possible for users to transfer their chat history from one platform to another. This would be useful if you plan to migrate to Android.

When it comes to social media platforms, we're usually there to enjoy content from other users. And while we're at it, we often express our thoughts through different mechanics, such as the reactions in Facebook. Well, what if more platforms got reactions?

Many Malaysians use online banking regularly now, making payments and transferring money through the Internet. E-wallets can also do that, which is why many have begun to use them. But it seems some people think you should be able to do transactions via messaging apps like WhatsApp too.

If you have been keeping up with WhatsApp updates, you would that the platform is already working on a data transfer and multi-device feature between Android and iOS. For the latter, it was announced by WABetaInfo on Twitter that the WhatsApp development team is already working on multi-device 2.0 that can link an iPad and Android tablets as newly linked devices.

In case you didn't know, WhatsApp has already rolled out the View Once update on your iOS and Android. If you want more of those, the WhatsApp team is now working on making messages disappearing.

As you know, messaging apps can be used to share a variety of different content. But besides images, the thing we mostly share are URLs. When you share links on WhatsApp, you get to see what's on the site. Now, preview links are getting an upgrade.