{"id":305528,"date":"2019-03-15T18:09:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=305528"},"modified":"2019-03-15T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T09:09:19","slug":"new-features-coming-to-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/305528\/new-features-coming-to-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"New features coming to WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is launching a range of new features, according to developments in the beta version of the application.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-19-73-whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WABetaInfo<\/strong><\/a>, WhatsApp added several new elements to its beta app in the Google Play Beta Program this week.<\/p>\n<p>This typically indicates which features are coming to WhatsApp for Android in the future.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WhatsApp doodle<\/strong> \u2013 A new layout with sticker and emoji tabs has been added, which lets users put stickers on photos, videos, and GIFs. The option to search stickers has also been added.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Search by image<\/strong> \u2013 This lets users search for an image on the web with an image they have sent or received in a chat. Selecting an image in a chat to search for uploads it to Google and will open your device\u2019s browser to show the results.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New emoji<\/strong> \u2013 WhatsApp has added a \u201ctransgender\u201d flag and new gender symbols to its emoji library.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is no indication on when these features will be added to the official version of WhatsApp, added the report.<\/p>\n<p>It added that the features mentioned above are still under development.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/304652\/flysafair-passengers-can-now-get-their-boarding-pass-via-whatsapp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FlySafair passengers can now get their boarding pass via WhatsApp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is launching a range of new features, according to developments in the beta version of the application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":245533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,2118],"class_list":["post-305528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305530,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305528\/revisions\/305530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}