Queue of the week loaded with updates for WhatsApp which, after bringing to 32 participants in group voice calls on iOS, has also released several betas, offering future changes for all tastes.
The news continues at the WhatsApp headquarters which, specifically, has updated the beta for Windows and Android, offering future news, while with the release of a new version for iOS it has already actually made various improvements available.
Starting from the beta for Windows, Menlo Park has distributed the 2.2215.0 release which, analyzed by the WABetaInfo leakers, has led to reveal how, even on PC, in the future, it will be possible to react to messages with any emoji and all desired skin tones. (as anticipated on Twitter also by CEO Will Cathcart). In particular, by pressing a particular button, the emoji selector will open which, in an ad hoc window, will show the recent emojis, those divided by categories, as well as the famous form to search for them manually. Initially, however, at the time of the debut, the function to react to messages with emojis will bring only 6 emojis pre-selected by the system.
With the stable release of WhatsApp for iOS bearing the number 22.8.80, WhatsApp has made available “the ability to access your favorite multimedia files in the gallery”, a small restyling for the pages relating to the screens for the info of groups and contacts , as well as an aesthetic change for the voice message balloons. In addition, group audio calls now, in addition to a “social audio interface”, include the possibility of involving up to 32 people, a function that highlights the speaker, and waveforms.
Again for iOS, WhatsApp has released the beta 2.22.9.72. In the meanders of its application code, the leakers have found evidence of how they are continuing to work on the future and not yet visible function to keep some messages while the disappearing messages function is active. From the extracted screenshots it can be seen that, thanks to this function, it will be possible to ensure that, at the expiration of a chat, a given message will remain usable, even if anyone is given the right to cancel its conservation, if they do not agree. with his stay. In this situation, if a message is “de-permanentized”, it will immediately disappear from the chat for everyone.
For some time, WhatsApp has been allowing you to take advantage of the Android APIs to derive the user’s position and create the dynamic sticker of the position, which can be affixed to the photos before sending them. According to what was discovered by analyzing the beta 2.22.10.7 of WhatsApp for Android, the platform is working to redesign this sticker, keeping the operating mechanism of the same still.