WhatsApp has a
new update for iOS users. The Facebook-owned messaging service brings in
Instagram-like location and time stickers which can be added to photos or
videos. The update will arrive soon for Android users.
This new feature
in WhatsApp is already seen in Instagram and Snapchat. To give you a brief,
Instagram lets you add time and location stickers along with other stickers to
photos and videos that you share as Stories, which automatically disappear
after 24 hours.
iPhone users
will need to update their app to version 2.18.30. To try out this feature, open
a contact you want to share the picture/video with.
Then click on
the ‘+’ plus icon and click ‘Photo & Video Library’ and then select a file
of your choice. You can now click on the ‘smiley’ button which is placed on the
top bar. Once you click it, you will see the time and location stickers. You
can also drag and reposition the sticker as you wish.
Additionally,
the update also allows users find a group member directly from the Group Chat
window. This feature allows you to search for a particular user and message
them on private chat.
Recently,
WhatsApp’s new feature, which allows users to delete embarrassing messages
isn’t completely full proof. Reportedly, this feature will not work when a user
has already quoted the message, you wish to hide.
According to a
report by The Next Web, it would appear that this feature works the same way in
group chats and private chats as well. Apparently, this isn’t a bug but in
fact, is a part of the feature.
Up until now, if
a user sent a message and deleted it from a group or individual chat within
seven minutes, the message would disappear. However, if within these seven
minutes, that message is quoted, then the original message will successfully
disappear but the deleted text continues to show in the recipient’s quote
respectively. There is no clarification provided in the WhatsApp’s FAQ as to
how this feature works.
For a while now,
researchers have discovered shortcomings in WhatsApp’s implementation of deleted
messages. Recently, a report claimed that recipients can easily have access to
the deleted messages as they are saved in the device.
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