If you missed our stories this week about the latest updates to WhatsApp beta for Android, iOS, and Desktop, this is a good time to catch up thanks to our summary. Among the 8 stories we shared, the best news of the week is about a new feature under development called “newsletters”, and the ability to keep messages from disappearing, available on WhatsApp for iOS and Android!
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| Story about? | WhatsApp news of the week |
| I’ve installed the latest update of WhatsApp for Android, iOS, and Desktop, but some of these features are not currently available. Is there a particular reason for this? | Some features in the app may be under development and not yet available to all testers, or they may be gradually rolling out to users. If you’re unable to access a certain feature, you’ll need to wait for a future update. Keep reading for more information. |
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| News of last week? | WhatsApp news of the week: picture-in-picture mode on iOS! |
| Previous article? | WhatsApp is releasing a feature to keep messages from disappearing on iOS and Android beta! |
- WhatsApp keeps working on adding support for editing messages by introducing an “unsupported message” when the feature is not compatible with your version of the app, for a future update of WhatsApp beta for iOS.
- WhatsApp is releasing the ability to filter the app settings by bringing a search bar to some beta testers, after installing the WhatsApp beta for iOS 23.4.0.73 update on the TestFlight app.
- We finally announced that WhatsApp is experimenting with a private newsletter tool, making it easier to bring a new one-to-many tool for broadcasting information to a future update of the app. We really recommend you read the article to learn more. This is definitely the best feature under development announced this week.
- Yesterday, we announced that WhatsApp was releasing the ability to keep messages from disappearing. Thanks to this feature, people in the conversation can save disappearing messages even after their expiration, but everyone is still in control over this feature as it is possible to unkeep them from disappearing. Further information is available in the mentioned article. In our opinion, this is the best news of the week released to beta testers:
- After installing the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.4.18 update, we discovered that WhatsApp keeps working on the development of profile icons within group chats so the team has not abandoned the development of this feature and it is still planned for a future update.
- In the article about the WhatsApp beta for iOS 23.4.0.70 update, we announced that WhatsApp is working on sending photos with high quality, for a future update of the app. Thanks to this option, it will be possible to send photos by preserving their image dimensions, but light compression is still applied to them.
- In case you didn’t read the article about the WhatsApp beta for iOS 23.4.0.74 update from the TestFlight app, we revealed that some beta testers can now report status updates that violate the Terms of Service to the moderation team.
- Thanks to the WhatsApp beta for iOS 23.4.0.75 update, we discovered that WhatsApp is working on the ability to schedule group calls. The feature is under development and it will be released in a future update of the app.
Stay tuned for more news and updates about WhatsApp, coming your way next week!
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