{"id":225424,"date":"2017-08-22T08:59:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T06:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=225424"},"modified":"2017-08-22T09:01:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T07:01:33","slug":"new-whatsapp-status-update-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/225424-new-whatsapp-status-update-features.html","title":{"rendered":"New WhatsApp status update features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is rolling out a new way for its iOS and Android users to &#8220;update their status and express themselves&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new feature makes it easy to share creative text-based status updates,\u201d said WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The text-based status feature allows you to update your contacts in a fun and personal way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp has taken Facebook\u2019s lead by allowing users to customise their status update by choosing a specific font and background colour, or include links.<\/p>\n<p>The company also outlined the following about it status updates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Control who sees your Status\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0In WhatsApp\u2019s privacy settings, you can select from the following three options: \u201cmy contacts,\u201d \u201ccontacts except\u2026\u201d and \u201conly share with\u2026\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>See who has viewed your Status\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0Tap the eye icon at the bottom of a Status update to view a list of contacts who have seen the update.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reply to an update\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0When you view someone\u2019s Status update, there is a reply button, letting you comment on any photo, video, or GIF. When you reply, your message will be sent in a WhatsApp chat with a thumbnail of the Status update.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/219640-awesome-new-whatsapp-features-the-details.html\">Awesome new WhatsApp features \u2013 The details<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is rolling out a new way for its users to update their status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[2594],"class_list":["post-225424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225424"}],"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=225424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225482,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225424\/revisions\/225482"}],"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=225424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}