{"id":373179,"date":"2020-10-29T09:56:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T07:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=373179"},"modified":"2020-10-29T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T07:57:29","slug":"new-whatsapp-features-rolling-out-to-android-and-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/373179-new-whatsapp-features-rolling-out-to-android-and-ios.html","title":{"rendered":"New WhatsApp features rolling out to Android and iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has released new beta updates for the iOS and Android versions of its messaging application, <a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-to-release-advanced-wallpaper-features-for-ios-beta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WABetaInfo<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the latest WhatsApp beta update released for iOS through the TestFlight beta programme includes advanced wallpaper configuration tools.<\/p>\n<p>These options allow you to customise the in-app wallpaper displayed behind chats in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n<p>This functionality can be accessed by navigating to the &#8220;Contact or Group Info&#8221; menu and selecting &#8220;Wallpaper and Sound&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>From this interface, you can select a new wallpaper to apply to the chat in question and change its opacity.<\/p>\n<p>There are 32 new bright wallpapers, 30 new dark wallpapers, and a number of solid colour options to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>Legacy wallpapers are available from the Wallpaper Archive folder on the customisation screen.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">New stickers for Android<\/h3>\n<p>WhatsApp has also rolled out a <a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-20-205-4-whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>new beta update for the Android version<\/strong><\/a> of its messaging app, which includes two new sticker packs.<\/p>\n<p>These stickers packs are named Cutie Pets and Tonton Friends, with the former comprising static stickers and the latter offering animated stickers.<\/p>\n<p>They can be accessed via the WhatsApp Sticker Store by those running the latest beta version of the application.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp has also rolled out these stickers to its Sticker Store for iOS and Business.<\/p>\n<p>Note that all features listed above are currently available in a beta stage, although the report stated that wallpaper customisation will be available for all users within a week.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/372514-new-whatsapp-features-launched-including-in-app-shopping.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">New WhatsApp features launched, including in-app shopping<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has released new beta updates for the iOS and Android versions of its messaging application, WABetaInfo reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":325813,"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":[58522,691,38537,2594],"class_list":["post-373179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-beta-update","tag-ios","tag-stickers","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373179"}],"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=373179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373217,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373179\/revisions\/373217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}