WhatsApp offers a user-friendly interface that facilitates communication with your loved ones. With its 2 billion active users across the globe, it reigns as the most popular messaging app. In addition to its basic utilities such as sending messages, photos, videos and documents, as well as video calls, it also offers the possibility of exploring advanced features to enrich your conversations. Indeed, its efforts to update do not cease to continue. And for the month of July, discover in the following lines 3 popular settings offered by WhatsApp.
Send video messages
WhatsApp often juggles between being behind and ahead in innovation. However, this time, the courier takes the lead in preparing a new form of communication.
Although the app already allows sharing of photos and videos, the app developers want to go further. So, in addition to text messages and audio messages, WhatsApp is about to introduce a video messaging feature.
With this new feature, users will now have the option to record video messages of up to 60 seconds in length, with the aim of avoiding endless messages.
Send higher quality media files
When it comes to sending media files on WhatsApp, the reduction in their quality is one of the main sources of frustration for users. It is true that this compression is carried out in order to optimize the transfer speed and the use of the data. While this is commendable, it would be equally nice if WhatsApp gave its users the choice to preserve the original quality of their files. After all, the freedom to choose is a sweet melody to our digital senses.
A breeze of novelty is blowing over 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 anticipated features: screen sharing. While it may sound surprising, the app has lagged behind its rivals in this regard. However, times are changing and WhatsApp is updating: the long-awaited feature has been tested on the beta version of the service for several weeks already.
According to information leaked by WABetaInfo, screen sharing on WhatsApp will result in the appearance of a new icon during calls. 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's 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.
