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WhatsApp Introduces Member Tags for Group Chats, Event Reminders, and More
WhatsApp on Wednesday announced several new features aimed at helping users stay connected and express themselves better in group chats. The Meta-owned instant messaging platform is rolling out member tags, which can be added to a user’s name to provide more contextual information about them. They can also turn any word they type into a sticker, ...
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WhatsApp Launches New Year 2026 Features With New Stickers, Video Call Effects and Status Tools
WhatsApp has announced New Year 2026 features as it prepares for its busiest day of the year, when message and call volumes are claimed to exceed its daily average of over 100 billion messages and 2 billion calls. The update includes a 2026 sticker pack, new video call effects like fireworks and confetti, animated confetti reactions, and animated s...
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Year Ender 2025: WhatsApp Features Coming in 2026
WhatsApp is preparing several new features for 2026, many of which are already appearing in Android and iOS beta updates. These include AI-powered Imagine tools for creative status updates, a username reservation system, advanced chat clearing controls, a strict account security mode, and an @all mention feature for group chats. They highlight What...
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Year Ender 2025: WhatsApp Features Launched This Year
WhatsApp rolled out multiple updates this year that refined everyday messaging, calling, and privacy features without changing the app’s core structure. New tools made chats more expressive, added AI-assisted writing and summaries, improved call planning, and expanded Channels and Status discovery. The app also strengthened privacy with passkey-e...
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WhatsApp Rolls Out New Features: Missed Call Messages, Fun Status Stickers, And AI Upgrades
For Status, WhatsApp is rolling out new stickers, including interactive designs, music lyric templates and question prompts to boost engagement.
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WhatsApp Announces Support for Sharing Live Photos, Meta AI-Powered Chat Themes, New Sticker Packs, and More
WhatsApp has announced several new features for its app. Users can now share Live Photos on iOS and Motion Photos on Android via the app, complete with sound. Further, Meta AI can be used to generate chat themes. Similarly, background for video calls can be created using text prompts. WhatsApp has introduced new sticker packs, support for document ...
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WhatsApp for iOS Adds Notification Reminders for Messages, Meetings, and Deadlines
WhatsApp has rolled out a new update of its app for iOS, adding a feature that lets users schedule notification reminders for messages. This helps highlight important information and tasks in chats, preventing them from getting lost in active conversations. Currently, the feature is available to select iOS users and is expected to expand in the com...
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WhatsApp for Android Testing Message Threads for Easier Group Chat Organisation
WhatsApp for Android is testing a threaded replies feature to improve group chat organisation, according to a feature tracker. The tool opens a separate window showing all replies to a single message. Currently limited to select beta testers, the feature may expand soon. Notably, the threaded icon appears only when a message gets multiple replies.
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WhatsApp for macOS Updated With Chat Filtering Feature to Display Unread, Favourite, and Group Chats
WhatsApp for Mac got a new update via the App Store. The latest update with version 25.22.79 reportedly introduces a chat filtering feature with Unread, Favourites and Group options. This is available to a limited group of users. The messaging service is is making it easier to see unread, favourite, and group chats on your Mac computer.
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WhatsApp Launches New Safety Tool, 6.8 Million Scam Centre Accounts Banned
WhatsApp has launched a new 'safety overview', which will alert a user when someone not in their contact list adds them to a new WhatsApp group that they may not recognise, as Meta's messaging platform intensified its crackdown on scams and fraud.
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WhatsApp Adds Advanced Chat Privacy Feature to Block Chat Exports, Disable Automatic Media Downloads
WhatsApp has introduced the "Advanced Chat Privacy" feature that adds an extra layer of protection to one-on-one and group conversations. The new privacy and security feature is designed to prevent attempts to save media and export chat content. WhatsApp already offers end-to-end encryption for messages and calls.
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WhatsApp Rolls Out Tappable Reactions, Video Notes for Channels and Other Features for Android, iOS
WhatsApp on Wednesday announced several new features for Android and iOS users which bring more functionality to chats, voice calls, video calls, and Channels. As per Meta’s instant messaging platform, there is now an “Online” indicator in group chats which lets users know about others who are available for a conversation in real time. Then t...
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WhatsApp Rolls Out New Effects for Video Calls, Group Calling Improvements
WhatsApp is rolling out several new features to improve the audio and video calling experience on desktop and mobile platforms ahead of the holiday season, the company announced on Thursday. The social media platform now lets users pick from even more effects in video calls. Further, it adds the ability to select specific participants for calls in ...
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WhatsApp Introduces New Typing Indicators for Real-Time Engagement in Chats
WhatsApp has rolled out a new feature for mobile devices which makes it easier for users to engage in chats in real time, it announced on Thursday. It will now display typing indicators with visual cues appearing in chats when users are engaged in active conversations in both one-to-one and group chats.
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WhatsApp Now Lets Users Create Events in Group Chats on iPhone with Latest Update
WhatsApp for iOS is introducing a new feature that lets users create events in group chats. The feature was first spotted in a beta version of the app for the Android platform by a feature tracker. However, it is now being rolled out to the stable version of the instant messaging app for iPhone.
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WhatsApp Introduces Member Tags for Group Chats, Event Reminders, and More
WhatsApp on Wednesday announced several new features aimed at helping users stay connected and express themselves better in group chats. The Meta-owned instant messaging platform is rolling out member tags, which can be added to a user’s name to provide more contextual information about them. They can also turn any word they type into a sticker, ...
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WhatsApp Launches New Year 2026 Features With New Stickers, Video Call Effects and Status Tools
WhatsApp has announced New Year 2026 features as it prepares for its busiest day of the year, when message and call volumes are claimed to exceed its daily average of over 100 billion messages and 2 billion calls. The update includes a 2026 sticker pack, new video call effects like fireworks and confetti, animated confetti reactions, and animated s...
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Year Ender 2025: WhatsApp Features Coming in 2026
WhatsApp is preparing several new features for 2026, many of which are already appearing in Android and iOS beta updates. These include AI-powered Imagine tools for creative status updates, a username reservation system, advanced chat clearing controls, a strict account security mode, and an @all mention feature for group chats. They highlight What...
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Year Ender 2025: WhatsApp Features Launched This Year
WhatsApp rolled out multiple updates this year that refined everyday messaging, calling, and privacy features without changing the app’s core structure. New tools made chats more expressive, added AI-assisted writing and summaries, improved call planning, and expanded Channels and Status discovery. The app also strengthened privacy with passkey-e...
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WhatsApp Rolls Out New Features: Missed Call Messages, Fun Status Stickers, And AI Upgrades
For Status, WhatsApp is rolling out new stickers, including interactive designs, music lyric templates and question prompts to boost engagement.
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WhatsApp Announces Support for Sharing Live Photos, Meta AI-Powered Chat Themes, New Sticker Packs, and More
WhatsApp has announced several new features for its app. Users can now share Live Photos on iOS and Motion Photos on Android via the app, complete with sound. Further, Meta AI can be used to generate chat themes. Similarly, background for video calls can be created using text prompts. WhatsApp has introduced new sticker packs, support for document ...
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WhatsApp for iOS Adds Notification Reminders for Messages, Meetings, and Deadlines
WhatsApp has rolled out a new update of its app for iOS, adding a feature that lets users schedule notification reminders for messages. This helps highlight important information and tasks in chats, preventing them from getting lost in active conversations. Currently, the feature is available to select iOS users and is expected to expand in the com...
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WhatsApp for Android Testing Message Threads for Easier Group Chat Organisation
WhatsApp for Android is testing a threaded replies feature to improve group chat organisation, according to a feature tracker. The tool opens a separate window showing all replies to a single message. Currently limited to select beta testers, the feature may expand soon. Notably, the threaded icon appears only when a message gets multiple replies.
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WhatsApp for macOS Updated With Chat Filtering Feature to Display Unread, Favourite, and Group Chats
WhatsApp for Mac got a new update via the App Store. The latest update with version 25.22.79 reportedly introduces a chat filtering feature with Unread, Favourites and Group options. This is available to a limited group of users. The messaging service is is making it easier to see unread, favourite, and group chats on your Mac computer.
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WhatsApp Launches New Safety Tool, 6.8 Million Scam Centre Accounts Banned
WhatsApp has launched a new 'safety overview', which will alert a user when someone not in their contact list adds them to a new WhatsApp group that they may not recognise, as Meta's messaging platform intensified its crackdown on scams and fraud.
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WhatsApp Adds Advanced Chat Privacy Feature to Block Chat Exports, Disable Automatic Media Downloads
WhatsApp has introduced the "Advanced Chat Privacy" feature that adds an extra layer of protection to one-on-one and group conversations. The new privacy and security feature is designed to prevent attempts to save media and export chat content. WhatsApp already offers end-to-end encryption for messages and calls.
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WhatsApp Rolls Out Tappable Reactions, Video Notes for Channels and Other Features for Android, iOS
WhatsApp on Wednesday announced several new features for Android and iOS users which bring more functionality to chats, voice calls, video calls, and Channels. As per Meta’s instant messaging platform, there is now an “Online” indicator in group chats which lets users know about others who are available for a conversation in real time. Then t...
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WhatsApp Rolls Out New Effects for Video Calls, Group Calling Improvements
WhatsApp is rolling out several new features to improve the audio and video calling experience on desktop and mobile platforms ahead of the holiday season, the company announced on Thursday. The social media platform now lets users pick from even more effects in video calls. Further, it adds the ability to select specific participants for calls in ...
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WhatsApp Introduces New Typing Indicators for Real-Time Engagement in Chats
WhatsApp has rolled out a new feature for mobile devices which makes it easier for users to engage in chats in real time, it announced on Thursday. It will now display typing indicators with visual cues appearing in chats when users are engaged in active conversations in both one-to-one and group chats.
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WhatsApp Now Lets Users Create Events in Group Chats on iPhone with Latest Update
WhatsApp for iOS is introducing a new feature that lets users create events in group chats. The feature was first spotted in a beta version of the app for the Android platform by a feature tracker. However, it is now being rolled out to the stable version of the instant messaging app for iPhone.
