Whatsapp updates 5 new features

Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been continuously bringing updates to its platform to make its mobile app better for the users. Every update includes improvements, bug fixes and new features. Thanks to online reports rumours we have listed few features that can be seen with the coming updates.

Here are 5 new features that can be seen in the future:

Live location:

WhatsApp is allegedly working on Apple’s ‘Find Friends’ feature. The feature was recently introduced by both Facebook and Google. According to an online report, the WhatsApp beta for Android v2.17.150 contains mention of the feature, however, it is disabled by default.

 Recall message:

According to @WABetaInfo, the firm is testing the feature in a new beta release of WhatsApp Web version 0.2.4077, which will allow users to ‘unsend’ sent messages within a five-minute time frame.

New shortcuts:

WhatsApp is also testing new shortcuts for formatting text on a beta version of the app on Android. In the beta version, the app displays a full range of formatting options—Bold, italic, strikethrough, when an excerpt of text is selected.

Person-to-person payment:

According to Mashable India, WhatsApp is in talks with the Indian government to add support for UPI, which allows access to multiple bank accounts into a single mobile app to make digital payments. At present, over 200 million people use WhatsApp across the country.

Change numbers:

WhatsApp may soon allow users to change their contact number and also notifies user’s contacts about the change without losing chats and group data. The feature also provides users with three options – share the new number with all their contacts or choose to share the new number only with those they have chats with. They can also choose not to pass out their new number with anyone. The new feature will solve several problems for users who lose out on chat when they change their numbers.

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New Recall feature

RECALL

Recall permits you to have a sent message returned to you unread, as long as you make the request for the message's return before it had been opened. thus if you called your boss a greedy old fool in a WhatsApp message, and then find out that he's about to give you a raise, you can take back your message as long as your boss hasn't read it yet.

New edit feature

EDIT

Another feature being prepped is called Edit. Just like Recall, this can enable you to make some changes to a sent post as long as it is unread. Remember the message you sent to your boss calling him a greedy old fool? Instead of asking for the message back, you can modify it so that the boss becomes a generous, diligent leader.

Group Tracking feature

TRACK

While first two features were caught on the android Beta, there is rumour about another new WhatsApp feature found on both the android and iOS Beta (version 2.16.399 and version 2.17.3.28 respectively) of the electronic messaging app. called Live Location tracking, this feature allows you to trace the whereabouts of your group members in real time. The tracking can be kept on for a minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, or indefinitely. This comes in handy if you are supposed to meet the group at a certain location and time, and you wish to ascertain how far from the destination everyone in the group is. The live streaming also can be disabled so that your cluster members cannot learn where you are at any given moment.

Group Tracking

The Live Location tracking is disabled by default, which implies that WhatsApp needs to activate it when it's ready to be launched.

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2 deadly WhatsApp virus that can hack phone details: Users beware!

WhatsApp users need to watch out about a new dangerous phone virus that's being circulated through the messaging application. it's been reported that two malicious virus files are being circulated through WhatsApp messages that can hack personal details of the user within the phone.


Security agencies have alerted defence and security personnel against the malicious activity of a virus, falsely bearing the name of elite organisations like NDA and NIA, that will breach and hack into their personal information and banking data. A consultative issued to the defence and security institutions states that the two notorious virus file are circulating over instant messaging application WhatsApp and are capable to sneak into personal details of the user, particularly the men in uniform.

Once the user clicks on the files, personal information like bank details in the phone become vulnerable of being exploited.
Central security services have issued a notification to defence and security establishments in india concerning the virus that is being circulated through WhatsApp messages, according to PTI.
The two virus files are "NDA-ranked-8th-toughest-College-in-the-world-to-get-into.xls" and "NIA-selection-order-.xls". The report said that the virus files largely bear the format of MS excel, but it are often in MS Word or PDF format as well.

Here is Why your WhatsApp may not work again.

A lot of WhatsApp user may receive messages saying that the messaging App that reads “unfortunately WhatsApp no longer supports this phone.  Please switch to a supported phone”

Here is the reason why, Back in February 2016 Facebook (owners of WhatsApp) announced that it will no longer support users on the following platforms.

• ·         iPhone 3GS/iOS 6
• ·         Android 2.1 and 2.2
• ·         Windows Phone 7

Users on Blackberry OS, Blackberry 10, Nokia S40 and Nokia Symbian S60 will enjoy Messaging App until June 2017.

The popular messaging app, which now has over 1 billion users the company claims, said that it decided to make this decision in order to continue introducing more advanced features that old operating systems can't handle.

"While these mobile devices have been an important part of our story, they don't offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app's features in the future," WhatsApp said in a blog post in February.

The company urged people to upgrade their devices to newer versions of Android, iPhone or Windows Phone.

WhatsApp said it is putting "an even greater emphasis on security features" which would require a more advanced operating system. The app recently launched a video calling feature and is likely to be rolling out more this year.

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