WhatsApp has added a number of new features to the beta version of its Android messaging app.<\/p>\n
According to a report by WABetaInfo<\/strong><\/a>, WhatsApp is working on a new Catalogue shortcut and call button for business chats, as well as WhatsApp Doodles for chat wallpapers.<\/p>\n The Catalogue shortcut is a quick shortcut within business chats that allows customers to easily access a business’s products via a dedicated icon.<\/p>\n WhatsApp is also working on a new Call button for business chats which combined the voice and video call shortcuts previously available from the chat screen.<\/p>\n When this button is tapped, it will allow the user to choose between voice and video calls.<\/p>\n WABetaInfo speculated that this functionality could roll out to consumer chats once implemented in the future.<\/p>\n WhatsApp is also working on a feature named Add WhatsApp Doodles, which allows you to customise chat wallpapers with faded sticker outlines.<\/p>\n This functionality will be available as a toggle under the Wallpaper settings menu.<\/p>\n WABetaInfo recently reported<\/strong><\/a> on a number of dangerous messages circulating on WhatsApp which will cause your application to freeze or crash when they are displayed.<\/p>\n These messages, which WABetaInfo has called \u201cscary messages,\u201d comprise a variety of weird characters which seemingly make no sense.<\/p>\n They cause WhatsApp to either interpret the message incorrectly or leave it unable to render the message completely.<\/p>\n This results in an infinite crash which can only be fixed by reinstalling the application.<\/p>\n WABetaInfo suggests that you set your group privacy settings to \u201cMy Contacts\u201d so that unknown contacts can\u2019t add you to groups with these crash codes.<\/p>\n WhatsApp has added a number of new features to the beta version of its Android messaging app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[66552,50487,66550,2594],"class_list":["post-366820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-doodles","tag-new-features","tag-scary-messages","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366820"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366820\/revisions"}],"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=366820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}“Scary Messages”<\/h3>\n
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