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WhatsApp has added new features and functions to its platform. Among these novelties are some that the company has been working on for months.
The trial period has ended for some of these features, and they are now officially added to the app. Meanwhile, some others are in their first phase of development. However, WhatsApp has already made known, on its update portal, the news of its system.
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Login to your account from two phones at the same time with ‘Buddy Mode’
The platform has started testing in its beta version to implement the new ‘companion mode’ function, with which can link two mobile phones so that the same account is used on both devices at the same time.
As reported by WABetaInfo, the ‘companion mode’ trial period is available for Android systems and is being implemented thanks to the 2.22.24.18 update with an option that appears for some users when they try to link the WhatsApp account.
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Send messages to yourself from a personal chat
Chats with oneself have also begun to be deployed in the application, that is, the conversations that the user maintains in the messaging application with their own number, which are already identified as such.
The WhatsApp application for iOS (version 22.23.74) allows you to locate your own number in the contact list, and start a chat with yourself that is identified with a ‘you’ in parentheses, as reported in the specialized portal WabetaInfo. As indicated in Android Police, this deployment is also being carried out on Android, in version 2.22.23.77.
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Group chats with too many participants will be automatically muted
The novelty, which the company has been working on for some time, has begun to be deployed in version 2.22.24.15 of the Android application, within the Google Play Beta program, as reported by the WABEtainfo portal.
In the capture that the aforementioned portal has shared, a message warns that “group has more than 256 participants has been automatically muted to help reduce notifications”. That is, large groups will be automatically muted when they have a large number of participants.
Source: Elcomercio
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