The first significant change is the addition of profile pictures for WhatsApp message notifications in iOS 15.<\/p>\n
Users of WhatsApp iOS beta version 2.22.1.1 will now see the person’s profile photo who sent them a message directly within the notification on their home screen.<\/p>\n
WhatsApp has enabled the feature, adding support through a new API available on iOS 15.<\/p>\n
The image below shows an example of WhatsApp notifications on the latest iOS beta.<\/p>\n
WhatsApp has also started showing additional information in notifications informing users that someone replied to or mentioned them in a message on a group chat.<\/p>\n On Android, the past week’s updates were primarily focused on bug fixes and general improvements.<\/p>\n But WABetaInfo also discovered<\/strong><\/a> new references to WhatsApp’s incoming Communities feature in Android beta version 2.21.25.17.<\/p>\n WhatsApp Communities will allow admins to organise multiple groups under a single, overarching channel, according to WABetaInfo’s reports.<\/p>\n That would provide similar functionality to what’s currently available from one of WhatsApp’s most prominent rivals \u2014 Telegram.<\/p>\n This capability, alongside support for more members per channel, has made Telegram popular for community safety groups.<\/p>\n Lastly, WhatsApp Business beta users on Android and iOS can search their chats and message using a new advanced search filter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n “When you use these options, you can quickly view results that meet your condition,” WABetaInfo explained.<\/p>\n Users can also combine different conditions to narrow down search results further.<\/p>\n For example, they can search for photos from non-contacts specifically.<\/p>\n These are some of the first new features and changes rolled out to WhatsApp this past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":406784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934,16],"tags":[161,35,54803,73842,2808,23753,2594],"class_list":["post-429458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","category-software","tag-facebook","tag-headline","tag-messaging-apps","tag-meta-platforms","tag-social-media","tag-telegram","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429458"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429476,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429458\/revisions\/429476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/WhatsApp-notification-with-profile-photo.jpg\")
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