all the news you will have in the application
WhatsApp is on its way to becoming a super app, and with all the new features it’s been adding since last year, figuring out all its tricks isn’t easy. This month of March, as in the next, The Meta app will get several new features through which your user experience will be improved and you will not need to use other applications for certain activities.
One of its new features This is due to the Digital Markets Act. named by the European Union like a gatekeeper or gain access to the gatekeeper. This flag means that Meta needs to make some important changes, and one of them is to allow entry into chats from third-party applications.
That is, if you have a Telegram account and it is installed on your computer, if you receive a message in this application, It should also be received on WhatsApp.. The goal is to centralize messages so that they can be received or sent from the most popular applications, in this case WhatsApp.
Below is all the news that will be received over the next few days or weeks to continue showing the difficult the work done by WhatsApp to turn it into a super app. In fact, Microsoft and the owner of X (formerly Twitter) have been working for over a year to create their own super apps that can make everything; WeChat in China is a prime example.
Receive messages from other apps like Telegram.
So, in a few weeks, since another similar news was leaked again a couple of days ago, you will be able to receive chats on WhatsApp from customized third-party apps. Is one of the biggest changes the app will receivealthough not all users will use it.
In the latest leak you can see a screenshot showing section of third-party applications for configurationand it will allow you to select the applications from which you want to receive messages.
New text formats for chats
Another of the most important new features is the ability to format text and thus convey numeric lists or lists of items or even mention a person’s chat. Here’s the idea We offer a wide selection of styles so that you can send richer text messages.
A typical shopping list is best read whether a dotted or numeric list is used instead of placing one product after another. That is, WhatsApp now offers the ability to style the chats you send.
Search messages by date
Chats with friends or family They usually consist of thousands and thousands of messages., and searching for anything in them can be very difficult; especially if you have to scroll over and over again or just use a search engine to find a keyword.
WhatsApp is already completely changing in this sense turning on the calendar in order to indicate the date and the chat application showed messages from those days, or simply redirect the user to them.
Blocking screenshots on your profile
The measure to protect user privacy was leaked a few weeks ago through one of the beta versions of the app. This is not the first nor the last action that WhatsApp is going to take to maintaining confidential user informationand even more so for an application that has been installed by millions of people throughout Spain.
But the fact is that even contacts will not be able to take a screenshot of the user’s profile. That is This photograph is fully protected as a human right.. Your photo is private and no one should be able to take a screenshot of it. In fact, anyone who tries to do this will receive a message warning them of the restriction.
View contact statuses without being “visible”
Within what This is a complete reorganization of the news tab.which is currently located at the top of the application, there is a new thing related to states, and since they are larger, they are a preview.
That is, the contact state takes on a rectangular and larger format so that it is clearly visible. In fact, now the states will appear at the top, but the channels will remain at the bottom.
Custom Themes
Another upcoming new feature is custom themes. In fact it offers multiple colors so select one as the app’s main color. Instead of the green that WhatsApp currently has on Android, you can choose blue to have your chat notifications be that color.
This key color will be applied throughout the application. similar to what Telegram does and therefore you can customize the color of the application a little to get away from the ubiquitous green color, since this application has become well known in Spain.
Block contacts from notifications
Another new product that many will surely like: block button next to the button designed to respond to a notification. The blocking will be immediate, and you won’t even have to type a message to block that contact.
WhatsApp knows this well More and more spam messages are coming in in your application, so this measure can be called one of the most useful that will be received in the coming weeks.
Create your username
Telegram has this feature, as do other platforms such as Discord, allowing create a username associated with a phone number. Its usefulness is based on the fact that you can specify this created username so that anyone can add the user to their phone book and thus avoid having to provide a phone number.
Of course this is new another option should arrive, which has been waiting since last summer: Hide mobile phone number. It will also be very easy to transfer the contact to the user, as is done on Instagram.
Sign documents from WhatsApp
Not all he will sign documents from time to time, but this function can come in handy if necessary. In fact, other experiences such as the digital certificate or the National Police’s new plan to bring DNI to the mobile phone go hand in hand.
Here, WhatsApp partners with DocuSign, the most famous online document signing platform, to so everyone can do it from whatsapp. This experience will include being notified when the user receiving the documentation has signed it.