What happened this week? If you didn’t have time to read our stories posted this week about the recent updates of WhatsApp beta for Android, iOS, and Desktop, this is the right time to do it thanks to our summary. The best news of the week is about the announcement of WhatsApp Communities, posted on Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg!
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| Story about? | WhatsApp news of the week |
| I’ve installed the most recent update of WhatsApp beta for Android, iOS, and Desktop but some of these features are not enabled. Why? | Some features may be under development, so they are not available to beta testers, or they are rolled out to some users. In both cases, you need to wait for a future update. Read more to discover the details. |
| News of last week? | WhatsApp news of the week: new message reactions! |
| Previous article? | WhatsApp is releasing cover photos for business profiles |
- WhatsApp has published the new WhatsApp beta for iOS 22.9.0.70 update, bringing the ability to exclude some contacts from seeing your information right within your privacy settings, thanks to a new option called “My Contacts Except…”. This feature has been rolled out to some beta testers.
- We have published some details about the communities tab on WhatsApp beta for Android, available when WhatsApp will roll out WhatsApp Communities to users.
- Mark Zuckerberg posted an announcement on Facebook about his vision for WhatsApp Communities, a feature that lets users manage their WhatsApp groups better. When you will be able to create or join a group, it does not mean that it belongs to a community, since including a group in a community is optional: communities and groups can coexist separately. A community is public when its admins share the community invite link online, so they can even be private like groups if they do not share the invite link.
Mark Zuckerberg has also announced some features coming on WhatsApp, such as message reactions, larger file sharing, and more. In addition, WhatsApp posted some more information and a screenshot of WhatsApp Communities on a new blog post. This is surely the best news of the week.
- WhatsApp has released the ability to set up cover photos on WhatsApp Business beta for iOS, in order to enhance business profiles. A WhatsApp Business beta for Android update is coming that will support the same feature.
- In the article about the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.22.9.8 update, we published a screenshot about a new share profile interface, available in a future update of the business app.
- WhatsApp is working on a new chat shortcut to quickly create orders for customers, for a future update of WhatsApp Business for Android.
- We have also published some details about the section where to create orders for customers, always available in a future update of WhatsApp Business for Android.
- Last news of the week about WhatsApp beta for Android: WhatsApp is working on improving the compatibility with Ray-Ban Stories, so people will be able to send messages on WhatsApp by using the Smart Glasses at a later date. The process to send WhatsApp messages by using Ray-Ban Stories will be always secured using end-to-end encryption.
Stay tuned for more WhatsApp news and updates coming next week!
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