News & Reviews:   Whatsapp

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The team behind WhatsApp continues putting effort into the chat platform by developing even more new features. Last month, features such as the "always mute" option and a new storage management tool have been widely rolled out to users. It was also rumoured that "disappearing messages" could soon arrive as well. Now, several new things are spotted again including muting videos before sharing and a new "Read Later" feature.

After the WhatsApp team brought a new storage management tool to their messaging app a few days ago, they are not stopping to improve the app that has two billion users by again releasing a new feature today. From now on, users can now set their messages to disappear after a certain time.

If you take a look at your smartphone's data storage, there's a good chance that WhatsApp is one of the highest storage space app hoggers, no thanks to the millions of photo and video spams sent by friends and family. Thankfully, the WhatsApp team have finally rolled out a new Storage Management Tool for better and easier file management.

Good news to entrepreneurs who run a business on Facebook, as the company will make business transaction easier soon. The businesses can directly sell their products on WhatsApp and the buyers can directly make an order from there.

As WhatsApp continues to add on new features and support for the app and website, it seems that they have sneakily added a new Mute option into our apps and web browser without us knowing. This was confirmed on the WhatsApp's official Twitter.

Based on a statement by wabetainfo.com, it seems that the developers of WhatsApp could be planning on introducing Facial Recognition for Android smartphones in the future. While there is no official information in regards to when the feature will be officially available, there’s also no info on which smartphone will support it as well.

Based on a statement by WABetaInfo.com, it seems that the developers of WhatsApp might be keen on implementing WhatsApp voice and video call to WhatsApp web. Currently, if you are interested in engaging in either a voice or video call on WhatsApp, you can only do it on either a smartphone or a tablet.

It seems that a screenshot posted by @wongmjane on Twitter seems to showcase Facebook’s upcoming feature that they’ve been working on, in order to help you manage your timeline better. While there’s no news on when the feature will be officially rolled out to the public, we do know that it is currently in testing, which means that it could be available within a month or two.

A few months ago, we have mentioned that WhatsApp is working on the option to let users mute their chats forever. Now, it looks like the feature will be rolled out to everyone soon as some users have gotten the update. Other than that, they are also going to upgrade the storage interface which will give more insight to users regarding consumption.