Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp remains the most popular and primary source of communication for many people around the globe for various reasons.
One of them is that users find the instant messenger the easiest to use and up-to-date app, all because of the new updates and improvements for all its versions.
The company has recently rolled out some more features and announced that a few others are in the pipeline during the past week.
If you missed out on the latest updates and features being introduced to the messaging app, this is the time to catch up.
Here are the top five new and upcoming feature updates:
WhatsApp is reportedly working on an AI-powered feature to imagine with Meta AI.
This new feature in development will allow users to create AI-generated images that accurately represent their appearance and imagine anything.
It is likely to be rolled out to iOS users.
Under a recent version update, for Android 2.24.15.3, some beta testers can experiment with a button to better control and reset the camera zoom level.
With the new feature, users can easily see the zoom level and reset it by tapping the button, ensuring a fastest and more efficient way to control it.
This feature is available to some beta testers, and it is rolling out to more users over the coming days.
A limited number of beta testers can now transcribe voice notes as reported by WABetaInfo.
"This is a process that preserve encryption as transcriptions are generated on-device."
The company aims to significantly improve accessibility and convenience for all users by allowing them to read transcriptions of voice messages on Android devices.
This update was rolled out under 2.24.15.5 version update.
WABetaInfo reported about the upcoming feature to translate messages using language packs.
The new exciting feature will allow the users to translate the messages in their chat boxes in their preferred language.
This feature is currently being developed for Android phones.
WhatsApp has rolled out new icons for communities and their linked groups on iOS devices.
To make it easier for users to distinguish community groups from other regular groups, the new update includes a refreshed design where the community announcement group features a new layout, reported WABetaInfo.
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