WhatsApp is a free instant messaging and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service available internationally.
The WhatsApp application works on mobile devices and can be accessed from your computer. The service requires a mobile number for registration. In January 2018, WhatsApp released a standalone business app called WhatsApp Business that can communicate with the standard WhatsApp client.
The client application was created by WhatsApp Inc. of Mountain View, California acquired by Facebook in February 2014. It became the most popular messaging application in the world in 2015.
By 2016, it had become the leading Internet medium in regions such as Latin America, the Indian subcontinent and much of Europe and Africa. After various changes and additions compared to previous versions of the App, here we must prepare for a further upheaval.
WhatsApp blocks screenshots: here’s when and why.
Good, indeed excellent news for privacy lovers. Less beautiful news for those who love to keep memories, even without the other person’s knowledge. Soon Whatsapp will prevent you from taking screenshots of photos and videos – here’s what this setting will do and how it will work. This is the ability to block actions that photograph content that is in a chat: in other words, the company of Half wants to freeze screenshots. Currently, the feature is being tested.
The news was stolen from the well-known site Wabetainfowhich he found iniOS 22.21.0.71 beta app clues that reveal the arrival of the screenshot lock functionality on the app. The novelty affects the photos and videos shared and which, by setting chosen by the user, can be viewed only once. According to reports Wabetainfothe screenshot lock feature will only affect videos and photos.
However, the text of the conversations within the chats will not be affected, which, at the moment, is inserted in the screenshot. For now, the user can only preventively choose to block the screenshots of shots and videos, through a setting (probably activated from the privacy menu). In this way one of the big limits of photos and videos is overcome “Ephemeral”: the fact that, before disappearing forever, they can be “photographed” with a screenshot.
Probably the distribution of this novelty will take place already in the coming weeks, to beta testers with iOS devices. Android users will have to wait a little longer to try the feature.
Not only this, but other news coming for users
Another novelty of the chat platform concerns the calls: they are the “Call Links”. The function allows you to take part in a video call and a group call, by receiving a direct link and tapping on it.
In other words, you just need to send a link to a contact to get him into a phone conversation. Announced at the end of September, the “Call Links”Are being distributed on WhatsApp and will be available to everyone within, presumably, a few weeks.
To date, the maximum number of participants for a video call is 8 users, but the company has, however, already announced that it has started testing for video calls with up to 32 people.
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