New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp has launched its official chat on the platform the place customers can obtain the newest details about the app, together with updates and recommendations on the right way to apply it to iOS and Android. According to WABetaInfo, the chat comes marked with a inexperienced badge, and likewise consists of suggestions and methods on the right way to use the app, in addition to info on new options and updates. Verified badges be certain that the chat is official, serving to to stop customers from falling sufferer to scams or phishing makes an attempt that imitate the official WhatsApp account. Moreover, the report said that the good thing about receiving these messages within the official chat is that customers can simply keep notified with out having to seek for the newest info themselves.
Users may also obtain updates instantly from WhatsApp, and if they don’t need to obtain notifications, they’ll at all times archive, mute, or block the chat. The report additional talked about that the primary message despatched by WhatsApp within the official chat explains the right way to make messages disappear and hyperlinks to an official FAQ.
Disappearing messages is a characteristic that permits customers to ship messages that disappear from each the sender and receiver`s chat after a sure time period. The new WhatsApp official chat is presently obtainable to some random customers, and it’s unclear how individuals are chosen because it appears to be a random choice, the report stated.
Meanwhile, Meta has launched a brand new WhatsApp app for Windows that masses quicker and options an interface much like the cell model of the app. Users can now host group video calls with as much as eight individuals and audio calls with as much as 32 individuals.
