WhatsApp Adds '@ All' Mentions and Poll Upgrades to Group Chats
- On Monday, WhatsApp experienced a significant outage preventing users from sending photos, videos, and stickers, though text messages continued to function normally.
- Downdetector recorded more than 400 reports of issues, with about 70 percent of complaints citing trouble sending messages; WhatsApp lacks an official status page for updates.
- Meta services such as Facebook and Instagram remained unaffected, while WhatsApp serves more than 3 billion users globally, isolating the disruption to the messaging platform.
- By morning, technical issues appeared resolved; during the outage, "Whatsapp not sending images" and "Whatsapp not sending photos" trended on Google as frustrated users sought help.
- Alice Newton-Rex, WhatsApp's vice president of product, announced users will soon reserve unique usernames, a privacy feature launching over the "coming months" to reduce phone number exposure.
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WhatsApp prepares one of the most important updates for group chats in recent years. The new feature will allow people joining a group to catch up with previous conversations, a feature that so far did not exist in the app.
New tools seek to reduce noise in conversations and facilitate organization within groups
Today we use WhatsApp groups for virtually everything, whether it is to organize trips, prepare some event, class work, talk to our colleagues at work, among many other things. That’s why WhatsApp wants to make these conversations much more useful and easy to manage. After the release last week of the audio and video calls on WhatsApp Web, a number of new features arrive to the group chats, with which it aims to make everything more fluid. They …
WhatsApp adds improved surveys for group chats, as well as the possibility of arraigning all members (@all) and creating groups from others
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