Category: IOS

IOS

The contacts list will come back on iOS

In the 2.17.5 update, WhatsApp enabled the Status feature, bringing in the same moment the Status and Camera tabs.        Do you like the new UI about the new Status and Camera tab?If you choose no, you prefer the Contacts tab (and Favorites for iOS). — WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) February 27, 2017 This poll shows how many WhatsApp users want the Contacts tab back. WhatsApp doesn't seem to be interested to bring back the Contacts tab, but something will change. WhatsApp is experimenting a new Contact section, on iOS!It will be available under your status updates! — WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) May 11, 2017 As announced on Twitter, WhatsApp is working on a new Status section in order to add back the Contacts list. In this new Status section, we can also notice a new icon next to "No recent updates" (that will be shown when there aren't statuses in last 24 hours), a "New Contact" option, that will allow you to quickly add a new contact in your Address Book and, for each contact, the relative About will be shown. To save space, WhatsApp also thought to add the "See all" button, that will show you all muted statuses. It's not sure if WhatsApp...
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IOS

Album feature is coming

WhatsApp Albums: this is the name of the new feature that WhatsApp is developing. Thanks to albums, you will be able to share multiple photos at once (recently Instagram introduced the same feature for its app). To create an album, you have to share/receive 4+ photos.
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IOS

Stickers and new design for GIFs!

WhatsApp will add stickers in the app soon: this is the last news spotted in the iOS version, that shows a new redesign for sending GIFs and, finally, stickers. As shown here, WhatsApp is going to redesign the GIFs picker, making it very similar to Android and Windows Phone.     You'll be able to choose a category to search quickly certain types of GIFs, or you can manually search them.