{"id":219640,"date":"2017-07-14T08:55:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T06:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=219640"},"modified":"2017-07-14T08:56:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T06:56:38","slug":"awesome-new-whatsapp-features-the-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/219640-awesome-new-whatsapp-features-the-details.html","title":{"rendered":"Awesome new WhatsApp features &#8211; The details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WhatsApp has improved<\/strong><\/a> its file-sharing capabilities, and now allows users to send any type of file up to 100MB.<\/p>\n<p>This is an improvement over its initial attachment feature, which only allowed people to send PDF documents to contacts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatsApp allows you to send documents to your contacts, just as you would send media, contacts, or a location. The maximum allowed file size is 100MB,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The 100MB file size also applies to images.<\/p>\n<p>Another new WhatsApp feature is the ability to see all your pictures and videos in the app camera by swiping up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you&#8217;re sending lots of photos at once, they&#8217;ll now be grouped into a gallery that only displays five images with the last thumbnail displaying how many additional photos have been sent,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/07\/13\/whatsapp-share-any-file\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Engadget reported<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other enhancements include design improvements for voice and video calls, and the ability to tap and hold when typing text in chat to bold, strikethrough, or italicize it.<\/p>\n<p>The new WhatsApp features are currently being rolled out globally.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/217050-when-whatsapp-will-cut-off-support-for-blackberry-nokia-and-windows.html\">When WhatsApp will cut off support for BlackBerry, Nokia, and Windows<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has added multiple new features, including improved file-sharing capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13427,2594],"class_list":["post-219640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-file-sharing","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219694,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219640\/revisions\/219694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}