WhatsApp is gradually rolling out several new features to its service, including the much-anticipated ability to add reactions to text messages.
WhatsApp is a free and secure instant messenger that allows you to keep in touch with all your friends or family, you can download and install it on all platforms.
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Downloads:
17441 -
Release date :
04/27/2022 -
Author :
WhatsApp -
Licence :
Free License -
Categories:
Communication
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Operating system :
Android, Online service All Internet browsers, Windows 32 bits – XP/Vista/7/8/10/11, Windows 64 bits – XP/Vista/7/8/10/11, iOS iPhone, macOS
WhatsApp is catching up with the competition. The instant messaging platform, owned by Facebook, has just announced new features that will finally allow it to play on equal terms with competitors such as Messenger, Telegram, Signal and others. These changes are gradual and happen on the server side, meaning there’s nothing to do but wait for Facebook to roll out the features to all accounts.
Surprisingly absent since the app’s launch, the most important feature of this update is being able to add “reactions” to messages. Deployed for a long time on all other messaging applications, this tool allows you to gratify a message with a discreet thumbs up, heart or emoji crying with laughter. Unlike other apps that allow you to choose from a large palette of emojis, WhatsApp only offers five at the moment and promises “a much wider range of expressions in the months to come.“The effort is there, but we would have liked more involvement.
512 people and 2 GB of attachments
Two other new features that should land in the coming weeks will facilitate remote collaboration. It will soon be possible to add up to 512 people within the same WhatsApp group and to share files of up to 2 GB (against 100 MB previously). According to the company, this should “facilitate collaboration within small businesses and school groups“. We can imagine that with the democratization of telework and distance learning, features like this could be very useful for sharing resources, courses and other multimedia files. All files added to a group will be protected by encryption. end to end.
On this point, WhatsApp does better than Signal, which uses the same encryption algorithm, but limits the sending of files to 100 or 200 MB. With these changes, WhatsApp probably hopes to forget the controversy of last year and impose itself as the reference application for communicating remotely, whether in a private or professional setting.