{"id":299330,"date":"2019-03-14T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T10:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=299330"},"modified":"2019-03-14T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T10:05:20","slug":"the-new-features-coming-to-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/299330-the-new-features-coming-to-whatsapp.html","title":{"rendered":"The new features coming to WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is launching a range of new features, according to developments in the beta version of the application.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-19-73-whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WABetaInfo<\/strong><\/a>, WhatsApp added several new elements to its beta app in the Google Play Beta Program this week.<\/p>\n<p>This typically indicates which features are coming to WhatsApp for Android in the future.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WhatsApp doodle<\/strong> &#8211; A new layout with sticker and emoji tabs has been added, which lets users put stickers on photos, videos, and GIFs. The option to search stickers has also been added.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Search by image<\/strong> &#8211; This lets users search for an image on the web with an image they have sent or received in a chat. Selecting an image in a chat to search for uploads it to Google and will open your device&#8217;s browser to show the results.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New emoji<\/strong> &#8211; WhatsApp has added a &#8220;transgender&#8221; flag and new gender symbols to its emoji library.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is no indication on when these features will be added to the official version of WhatsApp, added the report.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the features mentioned above are still under development.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/299246-android-10-beta-rolls-out.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Android 10 beta rolls out<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is launching a range of new features, according to developments in the beta version of the application.<\/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":[2562,161,2594],"class_list":["post-299330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-beta","tag-facebook","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299330"}],"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=299330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299332,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299330\/revisions\/299332"}],"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=299330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}