WhatsApp feature update: Know all about new safety features of the app

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Meta-owned instant messaging app, WhatsApp is one of the most used social media apps in India. It brings new updates and features in a regular basis for its users. Mainting the pace, the meta-owned app recently introduced some new safety features for its users in India. These feature are Flash Calls, Message Level Reporting, View Once and Link Previews.

These features will provide safety to users’ account data, privacy and make it easier for them to share confidential data. The app has claimed that these features will also help users to keep their data privacy in case there phone gets lost or stolen.

WhatsApp Flash Calls Feature

WhatsApp launched this feature a few days ago. The Flash Calls enhances the user account’s safety. The new flash call feature lets users to verify their phone number through an automated call, instead of an SMS message while setting up WhatsApp on a new phone or re-installing it on a handset. This is currently available for Android users only.

This feature is helpful, when your’ phone gets stolen and a hacker tries to use WhatsApp app to send messages using your contacts. With this feature, WhatsApp will call your phone number and then automatically end the call.  Note that, the phone number will be different every time. Then it will verify the received call number in your phone’s log and check if it matches with the number that gives you the six-digit code, said the report.

The feature is promised to provide utmost safety of your account and privacy during the verification. This feature needs you to give permission to the app to manage calls and access to your call log during the process. However, the company assures that the call history will not be used by WhatsApp for any other purposes.

WhatsApp Message Level Reporting

Another recently launched feature is Message Level Reporting. This feature allow users to get rid of some annoying message senders. Under this, the user can flag a specific message to report an account. Let us tell you that, the app currently allows the users to report or block other users from their profile information.

According to a report from Timesnownews, WhatsApp has banned over 2.2 million fishy accounts in the month of September this year through automated tools.

WhatsApp View Once Feature

WhatsApp also recently launched a new feature called View Once. The feature will let users send photos and videos that will disappear automatically after it has been marked as viewed. That means once the user on the receiver end view the message the photo or video will be deleted automatically. The send photo or video will not be saved in the recipient’s gallery. So you don’t need to worry about whether the photo will be forwarded to anyone else.

This way, users will be more assured about control over the privacy of the media sent. You need to activate the view once feature while sending the photo and for view once videos, you need to tap the “1″ button to the left of the send button, and then send it.

WhatsApp Link Previews Feature

Like its name suggests, the Link Previews feature of Whatsapp lets users preview a link before sending them to contacts. With this feature, you can see a quick preview of a link before clicking it without leaving the app.

WhatsApp Desktop photo editor Feature

WhatsApp now allows users to edit their photos on the Web version thanks to the Desktop photo editor feature. With this feature, users can add stickers and text to images, crop, and rotate photos from your desktop. The app also have the Sticker Suggestions feature with which you can type text in the window and tap the sticker icon to view relevant stickers.

WhatsApp Multiple device support feature

This feature allows users to use WhatsApp on multiple secondary devices even when there is no internet connection available on the primary phone. With this feature, you can open WhatsApp in four desktops or tablet at a time.

All these features are available with the latest version of the Whatsapp. So update your app to the latest version to enjoy them.

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