Tag: WhatsApp users

WhatsApp opens limited text message editing window for users

Stephanie Beck
Text message editing - Person using WhatsApp app

The popular messaging app is providing users with a 15-minute window in which to correct what they send. WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature in the popular messaging app that allows text message editing to become possible within the first 15 minutes after a message has been sent. For anyone who would like to make immediate corrections to a message, this is a welcome addition. It’s exceptionally commonplace to want to take back an unpleasant wording, correct a misspelling or typo, or otherwise correct details sent to friends, family,…

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WhatsApp finally adds feature to let us send ourselves messages

L. Green
WhatsApp - Person looking at app on phone

The new feature’s global launch occurred this week and is rolling out to all users. WhatsApp has announced that it has rolled out a new feature globally, and it is one that users have been craving for a long time – whether they knew it or not. The new feature will allow people to send themselves messages as reminders to themselves. The new WhatsApp feature is expected to be used as a way to keep organized, remember various points of information that don’t need to be recorded for long, and…

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WhatsApp developing video call masks and profile photo avatars

John Montgallo
WhatsApp Video call masks - Avatars

The Meta-owned messaging application is working on an entirely new feature for its users to deploy. WhatsApp is currently developing a new feature that will make it possible for users to create an avatar that they can use as video call masks or as their profile photos. The feature has been in the works for quite a bit of time but has not yet been released to users. Once the feature for video call masks and avatars is ready, it will be available for both Android and iOS device users.…

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Controversial WhatsApp Terms of Service are now in effect

L. Green
WhatsApp Terms of Service - WhatsApp user

Six months after the changes were first announced, the app has now required its users to agree. Over the weekend, the controversial WhatsApp terms of service went into effect and the app started requiring its users to either accept or stop using the popular messenger application. The requirement did not come as a surprise, as the app warned its users six months ago of the change. Despite a backlash that started right away, and as millions of people started downloading rival messenger apps, the WhatsApp Terms of Service acceptance requirement…

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WhatsApp users now total over 2 billion, active monthly

Sam Lambert
WhatsApp users - mobile user accessing WhatsApp

This figure is around half a billion short of parent company Facebook’s own monthly figures. The number of WhatsApp users has now risen above the 2 billion mark, for those who are active on a monthly basis, said C.E.O. Will Cathcart in a Wall Street Journal interview. This is the first time the Facebook owned app has revealed its user numbers in about two years. Facebook took to its blog to share the new WhatsApp users milestone. It’s only half a billion short of Facebook’s own active monthly user figures.…

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