WhatsApp has released a beta update for the Android version of its messaging up that shows it is working on a number of new features.<\/p>\n
According to a report by WABetaInfo<\/strong><\/a>, the latest beta version of WhatsApp for Android includes a fingerprint security verification feature and a number of bug fixes.<\/p>\n WhatsApp is experimenting with a security feature that will allow users to verify their identity for WhatsApp Web using the fingerprint sensor on their smartphone.<\/p>\n This functionality allows users to create a new WhatsApp Web session and confirm that it is them logging into the platform through the WhatsApp mobile app.<\/p>\n According to the report, this feature is currently under development and will be available in a future update.<\/p>\n The latest WhatsApp beta update for Android also includes various bug fixes, including an update to resolve issues with recently used emojis.<\/p>\n In previous updates, WhatsApp cleared the user’s recently used emojis whenever they updated WhatsApp. This has now been fixed in the latest beta update for Android.<\/p>\n WABetaInfo also noted<\/a><\/strong> that aside from the recently used emoji issue, the previous beta update for WhatsApp on Android contained a lot of problems.<\/p>\n These included the app occasionally crashing when users tried to open the Storage Usage menu and kicking users out of groups without being prompted.<\/p>\n When users are kicked from a group in this manner, they are able to rejoin via a group invite link or being added by a contact.<\/p>\n The beta update also had a problem with status updates where the correct background did not show in certain cases.<\/p>\n These bugs are being addressed by regular patches to the beta version of the WhatsApp application.<\/p>\n WhatsApp has released a beta update for the Android version of its messaging up that shows it is working on a number of new features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"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":[39729,463,2594],"class_list":["post-367759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-fingerprint","tag-security-2","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367759"}],"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=367759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367759\/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=367759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Issues in beta update<\/h3>\n
Now read: Apple relaxes App Store rules following pressure from developers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"