For users of the WhatsApp for iOS beta, two changes rolled out this past week.<\/p>\n
The first is the ability to pause and resume voice recordings, a feature that was previously only under development<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The feature could be useful if you are interrupted while trying to record a voice note or need to do something else but don’t want to start recording the voice note from the start.<\/p>\n The second change relates to how WhatsApp Business accounts behave on the platform.<\/p>\n For specific users on the iOS beta, these accounts will now be presented in the same way as personal accounts if they don’t have them in their contact list.<\/p>\n When users receive a message from an unknown business account, they will be presented with two options on a bar at the bottom of the message feed \u2014 “Block” or “Add to contacts”.<\/p>\n On the Android beta, WhatsApp has only made a few minor tweaks.<\/p>\n There is a new video call shortcut within the status section of the app, allowing you to call a contact as you are watching their status.<\/p>\n In addition, a new default group icon that shows two people instead of the regular three.<\/p>\n WABetaInfo believes this change may be in anticipation of the rollout of WhatsApp’s new Communities Groups.<\/p>\n This will let group admins create several dedicated channels under an overarching group chat.<\/p>\n The new icon will likely be to help distinguish between the current group type and a Communities group.<\/p>\n Lastly, WABetaInfo reports that WhatsApp is developing new apps for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and MacOS.<\/p>\n The UWP version of the app supports WhatsApp’s new multi-device functionality, which means your phone does not have to be connected to the Internet while you are using it.<\/p>\n WhatsApp will enable the new MacOS app through MacOS Catalyst’s support for iPad apps in a future update.<\/p>\n WhatsApp is working on a number of new features for its mobile and desktop apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":416980,"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":[17934,16],"tags":[161,40812,57456,2594,72242],"class_list":["post-423546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-facebook","tag-meta","tag-wabetainfo","tag-whatsapp","tag-whatsapp-voice-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423546"}],"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\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423632,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423546\/revisions\/423632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WABetaInfo_Pause-voice-recording.png\")
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<\/a><\/p>\nNow read: iOS 15.2 beta can censor nudity in Messages app<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"