WhatsApp offers a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to communicate with your loved ones. With 2 billion active users worldwide, it reigns supreme as the most popular messaging app. In addition to its basic features such as sending messages, photos, videos, and documents, as well as video calls, it also offers advanced features to enrich your conversations. In fact, its efforts to update the app are ongoing. And for the coming month of July, discover three popular settings offered by WhatsApp in the following lines.
Send video messages
WhatsApp often juggles between lagging behind and leading the way in innovation. However, this time around, the messaging service is taking the lead by preparing a new form of communication.
Although the app already allows users to share photos and videos, its developers want to take it a step further. As a result, in addition to text and audio messages, WhatsApp is preparing to introduce a video messaging feature.
With this new feature, users will now be able to record video messages up to 60 seconds long, with the aim of avoiding lengthy messages.
Send higher quality media files
When it comes to sending multimedia files on WhatsApp, the reduction in quality is one of the main sources of frustration for users. It is true that this compression is done in order to optimize transfer speed and data usage. While this is commendable, it would be just as welcome if WhatsApp gave its users the choice to preserve the original quality of their files. After all, freedom of choice is music to our digital ears.
A breath of fresh air is blowing through the service, bringing welcome changes. WhatsApp developers are currently testing a promising feature on the beta version of the app. This will allow users to choose the resolution of the files they share between:
- The standard resolution, for WhatsApp's default quality and
- HD resolution, for minimal compression.
This update seems less flamboyant, but we think it will be appreciated for its true value.
Do a screen share
WhatsApp is preparing to unveil one of its most eagerly awaited features: screen sharing. Although this may seem surprising, the app has fallen behind its rivals in this regard. However, times are changing and WhatsApp is updating: the long-awaited feature has been undergoing testing on the beta version of the service for several weeks now.
According to information disclosed by WABetaInfo, screen sharing on WhatsApp will result in a new icon appearing during calls. Once accompanied by a warning message indicating that WhatsApp will have access to all data displayed on the screen, users will be able to share what is happening on their screen in real time.
We believe these new features will be much appreciated and will give WhatsApp's already skyrocketing popularity a further boost.
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