{"id":379918,"date":"2020-12-11T08:29:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T06:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=379918"},"modified":"2020-12-11T08:31:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T06:31:03","slug":"new-features-for-whatsapp-on-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/379918-new-features-for-whatsapp-on-windows-10.html","title":{"rendered":"New features for WhatsApp on Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has continued to roll out new features to its Windows 10 desktop application, most recently introducing support for third-party stickers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/whatsapp-for-windows-10-now-supports-third-party-stickers-531734.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Softpedia News reports<\/strong><\/a> that the most recent version of the WhatsApp desktop app for Windows 10 now supports third-party stickers, a feature which has been present on the WhatsApp web client for some time.<\/p>\n<p>This means that third-party stickers installed on your smartphone WhatsApp application will now sync with your WhatsApp desktop and web clients.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp also rolled out general bug fixes and performance improvements to the Windows 10 version of its application.<\/p>\n<p>The report added that WhatsApp is working on a number of additional features &#8211; including support for multiple devices on the same account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-web-2-2049-8-whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WhatsApp Web<\/strong><\/a> has also received an update, which adds support for a new alternative chat bubble colour.<\/p>\n<p>This alternative dark green colour is now enabled on the WhatsApp Web platform when the user has enabled dark mode.<\/p>\n<p>The colour changes are also available in the latest beta version of the WhatsApp app for iOS, as well as the latest version of WhatsApp&#8217;s desktop application.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">&#8220;Read Later&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>In addition to the above, WhatsApp is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/376023-new-read-later-feature-coming-to-whatsapp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also testing a new feature called &#8220;Read Later&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>, which will replace the Archived Chats functionality.<\/p>\n<p>The new feature is currently being tested on the beta version of WhatsApp for iOS\u00a0and is available to try out through the Apple TestFlight beta programme.<\/p>\n<p>This new Read Later feature will include the new Vacation Mode functionality, which allows you to continue hiding archived chats even when new messages arrive.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, when a chat is placed into the Read Later section, the user will not receive notifications from that chat.<\/p>\n<p>Users can edit the Read Later section to disable the Vacation Mode functionality, enabling notifications for chats stored in this section.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/379672-rip-adobe-flash-player.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">RIP Adobe Flash Player<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has continued to roll out new features to its Windows 10 desktop application, most recently introducing support for third-party stickers.<\/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":[42540,2594,26970],"class_list":["post-379918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-features","tag-whatsapp","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379918"}],"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=379918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379918\/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=379918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}