WhatsApp plans to roll out a number of new features in WhatsApp in 2023 as it maintains its dominance in the messaging app market. These modifications fundamentally alter how we communicate by placing an emphasis on flexibility, simplicity, and privacy. Let’s look at the fascinating new features WhatsApp has introduced this year:
Privacy Enhancements:
Silence Unknown Callers: This function gives you more privacy and control over incoming calls by automatically filtering out spam, prank calls, and calls from unknown numbers.
WhatsApp launches a feature called Privacy Checkup that guides users through crucial privacy settings to improve the security of their messages, calls, and personal information.
WhatsApp Channels:
Users can get timely information from persons and organizations privately and with confidence through channels. Channels provide a one-way broadcast option for managers to distribute text, photographs, videos, stickers, and polls apart from personal chats. A searchable directory that includes channels for hobbies, sports teams, and local government updates is available to users.
Message Editing:
Editing sent messages now gives users more control over their discussions. Long-pressing on a sent message enables revisions within fifteen minutes, allowing for everything from rectifying a typo to adding context. The labelling of edited messages as such ensures transparency without showing the modification history.
Chat Lock:
With Chat Lock, users may add an additional degree of security by securing their private communications with a device password or biometric authentication. Locked communications are kept private by being buried in alerts and a separate folder.
Poll Updates & Enhanced Forwarding:
With WhatsApp’s new poll updates, groups may now consult one another for information and make decisions. Single-vote polls can be created, and creators can search for polls within chats and get notifications when people vote.:
Users can now opt to keep, delete, or rewrite the caption when sending media with captions, providing additional context when sharing images and videos between chats. Similar to this, it is now possible to share papers with captions, which give clarification and explanation.
One WhatsApp Account on Multiple Phones:
Similar to WhatsApp Web, WhatsApp now allows users to link their accounts to up to four other phones, expanding its multi-device functionality. End-to-end encryption and easy switching between devices are ensured by the autonomous operation of each linked phone.
Keep In Chat:
Users can utilize this functionality to save particular messages even when Disappearing Messages is turned on. When a communication is kept, the sender is informed and has the option to override the choice. The Kept Messages folder is where saved messages are arranged.
New Security Features:
When transferring WhatsApp accounts to a new device, Account Protect adds an additional security check to stop unauthorized attempts.
Device Verification ensures the continued use of WhatsApp by authenticating accounts and guarding against smartphone malware.
Automatic Security Codes simplify the procedure for confirming safe connections, improving user security.
Group Management:
By selecting who may join their groups, administrators have more control over group privacy.
As groups and contacts become more visible to one another, group navigation and identification are made simpler.
WhatsApp Status Enhancements:
Users can choose who can access each status update’s privacy settings using the Private Audience Selector tool.
On WhatsApp Status, voice messages up to 30 seconds in length can be recorded and shared using Voice Status.
Emojis can be used to quickly reply to status updates in Status Reactions.
Users are alerted by Status Profile Rings when their contacts post a status update.
Links shared on WhatsApp Status are visually previewed using Link Previews. With these exciting new additions to WhatsApp for 2023, users around the world can expect a more engaging and secure messaging experience that further improves privacy, convenience, and interaction.