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Retail Asia08/11/2023

WhatsApp, one of the world’s most popular instant messaging apps, is constantly rolling out new features and updates in an effort to improve the user experience. In the past week alone, the app’s developers have released two new beta updates on Android that introduce a couple of interesting features, including the return of Muted updates […]

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Retail Asia24/10/2023

WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program that includes a new feature to hide locked chats. The feature is currently in development, but it is expected to be available to all users in a future update. WhatsApp officially rolled out the Chat Lock feature back in May as a way to […]

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Retail Asia17/10/2023

Last week, Google announced that passkeys would become the default authentication method for its users on personal accounts. Within that announcement, Google also stated that passkeys support is growing, listing a few of the companies that had already enabled them on their apps and websites, with a mention of WhatsApp as one of the ones that […]

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Retail Asia21/09/2023

WhatsApp is trying to create new experiences in addition to the basic chat experience that everyone knows and loves. Businesses and business-oriented features have been the focus of WhatsApp’s development strategy for quite some time, but few projects have materialized in actual features that users can take advantage of. Early this week, WhatsApp announced Flows, a new […]

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Retail Asia20/09/2023

Popular messaging app WhatsApp has never offered an app for the iPad. Instead, iPad users who want to use the platform are forced to use the web version of WhatsApp using a mobile browser. That’s because in the beginning, there wasn’t a separate iPadOS operating system for the tablets and WhatsApp didn’t work with the […]

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Retail Asia14/09/2023

WhatsApp announced today via its official blog the launch of its new Channels feature in over 150 countries as well as the addition of thousands of new channels. WhatsApp Channels have been in the works since earlier this year as a way to give users a private outlet to receive updates from organizations, sports teams, artists, and notable […]

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Retail Asia08/09/2023

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg teased last month the imminent arrival of one of WhatsApp’s most requested features, the ability to share HD videos. Although some Android and iOS users got the feature last month, the global rollout has only just begun. Today, WhatsApp officially confirmed that it had started to roll out HD video support on its messaging app. With […]

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Retail Asia06/09/2023

Ever get annoyed when something just doesn’t work quite right? It might be handy, it might have its uses, but there’s still that feeling of having to scoot the chair to crack open the fridge, you know what I mean? Well, sometimes, these irritating quirks come from apps, and it’s a relief when they get […]

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Retail Asia22/08/2023

WhatsApp is already one of the best messaging apps, but there’s always room for improvement. That’s why we’re getting new updates that bring important new features almost every month. Recently, the app added support for high-resolution photos and promised to bring support for HD videos very soon too. On top of that, we’ve just learned that WhatsApp […]

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Retail Asia11/08/2023

WhatsApp has been rolling out a lot of new features lately, but we’re expecting the messaging app to get even more in the coming weeks. Meta’s successful acquisition is testing new features all the time, but only select beta testers have access to these. The folks over at WabetaInfo made a habit of dissecting every new beta […]

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Retail Asia28/07/2023

WhatsApp continues on its quest to revolutionize communication by adding more and more methods to share your thoughts. Now, in addition to its popular voice messages, WhatsApp is adding video to the mix. The popular messaging app has announced the rollout of instant video messages where its users can easily create and share brief personal videos directly within […]

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Retail Asia03/07/2023

WhatsApp has been rolling out new features to its messaging app like there’s no tomorrow. Several updates were released last month alone (not counting the beta version), which is unusual even for one of Google’s most popular apps. Over the weekend, WhatsApp announced yet another new feature is making its way to Android and iOS users: […]

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Retail Asia28/06/2023

WhatsApp has been hard at work lately adding features and applying design tweaks in order to set itself apart from competing products and become more relevant in the U.S. market, where SMS/MMS/RCS and iMessage are king. The latest of these attempts being its apparent attempt to make its iOS and Android apps look more alike […]

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Retail Asia21/06/2023

WhatsApp users have been spoiled lately, as Meta’s acquisition rolled out several important updates in the last few months, something that doesn’t happen too often. Today’s update introduces a couple of privacy features that we’re pretty sure users will find extremely useful. As the title says, a new option to automatically silence unknown callers is now available […]

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Retail Asia08/06/2023

WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature allowing users to send high-definition (HD) photos on iOS and Android. The feature, which is currently being tested by a small group of beta testers, will allow users to send images without them being heavily compressed, although a light compression will still apply. As per WABetaInfo‘s reporting, the new […]

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Retail Asia07/06/2023

WhatsApp, the popular messaging app, is experimenting with a new redesigned Emoji keyboard that divides emoji, GIFs and stickers into three categories on the top. This keyboard was first spotted as being in development but now it’s starting to roll out in the latest version of WhatsApp beta for Android v2.23.12.13 from the Google Play Store. […]

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Retail Asia23/05/2023

Tipped a few times in the past by reliable sources, the ability to edit WhatsApp messages is finally coming to all users. WhatsApp confirmed earlier today that users should see the new feature over the coming weeks. Correcting a misspelling or changing the message completely to provide extra context can now be done via a simple long-press on the […]

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Retail Asia16/05/2023

WhatsApp has announced a new feature called “Chat Lock” that adds an extra layer of privacy to its users’ most private chats. This feature allows users to lock a chat thread so that it can only be viewed after once again entering the device’s password or fingerprint. WhatsApp touts this feature as a tool to make sure […]

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Retail Asia15/05/2023

WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging app, has released a new beta version for Android – version 2.23.10.13. This latest update brings several new features and improvements to the app, including the ability to edit sent messages for some select users. The key feature with this update would allow users to edit messages they have already […]

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Retail Asia10/05/2023

WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by Facebook, has been found to include a bug that allows the app to continue accessing the microphone even after the user has closed it. This bug was discovered by several users, but brought to the spotlight by a Twitter engineer who noticed it happening on his Pixel 7 […]

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