Which is why, the messaging app introduced a one-stop solution called Communities in April 2022. Organisations like local clubs, schools or businesses heavily depend on WhatsApp to work and share confidential information. Introducing communities Image Credit: WhatsApp Remember playback: In case you press pause while listening to a voice message in a chat, this feature lets you resume from where you left off.įast playback on Forwarded Messages: The feature allows you to increase the speed of regular and forwarded voice messages to 1.5x or 2x, to listen to them faster. Waveform visualisation: It shows a visual representation of the sound, on the voice message, to indicate the recording is on.ĭraft preview: You can listen to your voice messages before sending them to your loved ones or clients. Pause/resume recording: You can pause your voice message recording to, for example, collect your thoughts or do away with distractions and resume recording once ready. Out of chat playback: It helps you hear a voice message outside the chat, while you read and respond to other messages or multitask on your smartphone. Taking a cue from this, the messaging app launched new features in March 2022 to improve the WhatsApp voice message experience. In a 30 March 2022 blog, WhatsApp reported that its users share 7 billion voice messages on average, which are protected and kept private using end-to-end-encryption. With this, users could send photographs, without worrying about it taking space in your phone. Additionally, in August 2021, the company rolled out the ‘View Once’ option, which made chats disappear after they were opened. Other updates made to the app include WhatsApp Web, which launched in 2015, and end-to-end encryption, stickers, group calling and UPI payments introduced till 2018. Thus, with enhancing usability, WhatsApp has become one of the fastest mediums for keeping in touch with loved ones via chats and video and audio calls, as well as to engage audiences and accelerate sales through features like WhatsApp Business.
Many changes in the app have been attributed to its acquisition by Meta (formerly known as Facebook) in 2014.
But before we get to the WhatsApp updates in 2022, let’s have a look at some earlier ones. Today, the app is much more than that, owing to its interface and the regular updates it undergoes.
In 2009, two ex-Yahoo! employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum launched WhatsApp as a one-to-one chat app service.
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