WhatsApp is an ever-growing app, and despite many of us predicting the beginning of the end with Facebook’s acquisition (Meta for moderns), the reality is that the app has only grown in features, characteristics and above all in performance. All this despite the fact that the latest moves at the user interface level ended up pleasing no one.
It is the new features of WhatsApp that make this messaging app useful for many users. Find out with us what WhatsApp is capable of if you know all its capabilities well.
The latest version of WhatsApp is 2.23.5.78, and is available, as always, completely free of charge in the iOS App Store. Before checking out all these tips and features, you should check that you have this latest version installed, and there are two ways to do that:
- Long press on the App Store icon, click on the “Updates” option and check in the “Available updates” section if you have any pending WhatsApp updates.
- Go to WhatsApp, click “Settings”, and at the top you will see version information.
Accompany the documents with a small text
We were able to send documents on WhatsApp for a long time, however, unlike what happened with photographs, the documents could not be accompanied by a text, which helps us a lot to locate them later with the search engine integrated from WhatsApp itself.
At any rate, now we can accompany the documents (Excel, Word, PowerPoint…) a short explanatory and indicative text.
Send unlimited photos (or almost…)
Until now, the limit for sending photos and videos was 30 at the same time, which was a tragedy for selfie lovers on a group trip. Rest assured, good old Mark Zuckerberg has allowed the developers to increase the limit.
Now you will be able to receive 100 photographs at a time, a real nightmare for anyone who doesn’t know our tips to save storage space in WhatsApp in depth.
Describe your group more precisely
This recent WhatsApp update seems focused on size, dimension, and content availability. In short, you will now be able to be much more explicit when detailing the purpose of a WhatsApp group, since the number of characters allowed in the group information box has been increased.
dynamic video calls
WhatsApp has decided to take the iOS Picture-in-Picture (PiP) implementation to a new level with this new update. This is one of the most anticipated and requested innovations by the majority of WhatsApp users, and it is that until now when you made a WhatsApp video call, you could not perform any other task with the phone, because although the audio is maintained, it has been crippled the streaming of content through the camera.
This has not happened in other applications such as FaceTime, which allows you to make a video call with a small window (PiP) and therefore continue to perform your tasks comfortably.
In this sense, if we are in the latest version of WhatsApp vWe love being able to do something else, management or task from our iPhone without any problem, since we will have a small pop-up window that will show us the content of the video call, which we can adjust in size and position according to our needs.
This may be the first step for the arrival of WhatsApp on the iPad, since it was more than necessary to set up a system of video calls in the background or PiP for it to be fully functional on the iPad.
New implementation of avatars
Mark Zuckerberg’s firm catapults avatars by all means, these “stick figures” whose functionality is to represent us in the Virtual Reality environment with which Meta wants to revolutionize new generation social networks.
With this implementation we will be able to change the hair color, add accessories and even change the most differentiating characteristics of our avatar.
To do this, we must enter WhatsApp, go to the “Settings” section, and we will find a space completely dedicated to creating and configuring our avatars.
This way, when we finish customizing our avatar, we can create a profile picture with different background colors, postures and gestures through our avatar. This is “amazingly” similar to iOS Memoji, which we can also use, save and personalize, however, the final intention of Meta is that its avatars become popular in all its applications, be it the virtual reality environment, Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, creating a sense of continuity .
In the meantime, they continue to bet on maintaining WhatsApp as a completely independent application.
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