We expected March to be a watershed month for WhatsApp, as it was when it had to open up to other apps due to European requirements. Interoperability has finally arrivedalthough only technically, although the month was marked by many other developments on all fronts.
Below we review all the WhatsApp news for the month of March This should already appear on your mobile, so it’s easier for you to keep track of what’s changed and what’s still to come.
Pin up to three posts
Pin three messages, in WhatsApp for iOS
A small and curious change has occurred in the function of pinning messages in a chat, which debuted in the application a few months ago: now you can post up to three messages
The new feature is being rolled out to all users and allows us highlight three important messages in a chat, showing them with vertical marks to move from one to the other. Pinned posts don’t last forever: they stay for a day, a week, or a month.
Chats from other apps
Yes, interoperability has come to WhatsApp in Europe, but only technically. Meta has done its homework and prepared the application to be able to communicate with other applications, but it will still take time until other applications, if they wish, will point to the system.
Thus, in March, WhatsApp became interoperable, being able to receive messages sent by users of other applicationsbut we will still have to wait to be able to try it for ourselves, since no application supports them yet.
Blocking profile photo screenshots
A curious novelty of WhatsApp that we really did not expect is the block screenshots of profile photos
With this, WhatsApp seeks to prevent our profile photo from being “stolen” to usurp our identity in various scams and therefore, depending on the mobile phone you have, or a capture will be made in black or nothing will be captured at all.
Swipe to switch tabs
By popular demand, swipe again to switch tabssomething we had lost in Android since WhatsApp moved the top tabs to the bottom button panel, like in iOS.
According to Material You, this bottom button panel should not allow us move from one section to another by sliding your finger sideways
Create stickers
The last item on the list is definitely my favorite: WhatsApp’s built-in sticker maker, which is already appearing to users, especially in the beta version. This is probably the best way to create custom WhatsApp stickers that currently exists.
This sticker maker appears in the form of Create button and the best of all is that automatically crops the edges of photos, if it detects that it contains a parent element. If that’s not enough, you can also edit a sticker after you’ve created it, and that includes stickers that other people send you.
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