Haneet Singh

7 Upcoming WhatsApp Features to be excited about

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Last year, WhatsApp added a slew of new useful features, and this year is not going to be different, yes, there are more to come.

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WhatsApp has been testing a stack of new features for the past few months. Here's a roundup of some amazing features coming to WhatsApp very soon.

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The much-awaited feature is now available to some beta users on Android v.2.22.8.3. There are 6 reactions to react to messages.

Message Reactions!

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WhatsApp’s Last Seen feature is set to get an additional option, which let’s users hide the last seen from specific contacts.

Hide Last Seen from specific contacts

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WhatsApp is planning to add a new Cover Photos option for WhatsApp Business accounts. At the moment, the feature is under development, will be available soon.

Cover Photos

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WhatsApp is all set to overhaul the interface of voice calls by adding new backgrounds. For now, the feature is under developer phase.

Voice Calls Wallpapers

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WhatsApp is planning to use a new limit for deleting messages for everyone: 2 days and 12 hours, hint from last month’s beta update.

New Time Limit for Deleting Messages

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WhatsApp is planning to expand animated red heart emoji to the other heart emojis as well. Leak hints it is coming soon to both Android and iOS.

Animating Heart Emojis

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Communities is set to bring more controls to groups, the feature is going to be the same as Discord groups. The feature will give more control to admins.

Communities

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All features mentioned in this story are under testing phase, will be available to everyone with coming updates, beta users will get access to these features first.

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