Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a brand new characteristic that may permit customers to answer to standing updates utilizing avatars on iOS and Android.
With this characteristic, the corporate goals to enhance engagement with standing updates by offering customers with an extra instrument to interact with their contacts, making replying to standing updates much more interactive, in response to WABetaInfo.
The report talked about that customers can presently select from a set of eight accessible avatars to reply to standing updates.
This characteristic is on the market to some beta testers who set up the newest variations of WhatsApp beta for Android and iOS.
As well as, some beta testers may also reply to standing updates by utilizing an animated model of the avatars accessible within the set, a characteristic that was not accessible throughout the improvement, the report confirmed.
In the meantime, WhatsApp has introduced to roll out assist for a password-less passkey characteristic to all Android customers.
The transfer will assist WhatsApp customers on Android bid goodbye to insecure and even annoying two-factor SMS authentication.
“Android customers can simply and securely log again in with passkeys. Solely your face, fingerprint, or pin unlocks your WhatsApp account,” the corporate posted on X (previously Twitter).
Passkeys have been beforehand being examined by WhatsApp in its beta channel, however it’s now coming to common customers.
There may be nonetheless no data on assist for WhatsApp passkeys on iPhones.
In different information about WhatsApp, the characteristic is reported to get one other safety characteristic. The brand new characteristic will make it more durable for hackers to deduce customers’ location by defending their IP addresses in calls.
As per WABetainfo, the brand new ‘defend IP deal with in calls’ characteristic will supply an additional layer of safety. Whereas this characteristic might supply added safety, it might need a minor influence on the decision high quality as a consequence of encryption and routing.
— With inputs from IANS
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