YOUR WhatsApp could soon be updated with a few new useful features.
Meta, the company behind WhatsApp, is always inventing new features for the chatting platform and they all start life in the beta version of the app before heading to your phone.
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According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp has just updated its TestFlight beta program to the 22.13.0.73 version.
It means users of the beta app will get a new “unread chat filter”.
WABetaInfo states: “WhatsApp is releasing this feature to some beta testers, and you should wait for some new beta updates if you don’t have this feature enabled for your WhatsApp account.”
The unread chat filter does as its name suggests and lets you organize your chats so you can see what you haven’t replied to.
It’s unclear when a feature like this will roll out to mainstream WhatsApp.
Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg also recently announced that WhatsApp users can now easily swap from Android phones to iPhones.
The billionaire Meta boss – who runs Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp – revealed the change in a social post.
Zuckerberg says that the change was in high demand.
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“We’re adding to WhatsApp the ability to securely switch between phones and transfer your chat history, photos, videos, and voice messages between Android and iPhone while maintaining end-to-end encryption,” said Zuckerberg.
“This is a top requested feature. We launched the ability switch from iPhone–>Android last year, and now adding Android–>iPhone as well.”
It’s rolling out from today.
If you can’t wait for new WhatsApp features to go mainstream you can try downloading WhatsApp beta today.
How to join WhatsApp beta
To download WhatsApp beta for your smartphone you need to go to Google Play on your Android and search for WhatsApp.
Scroll down the page until you see “Become a Beta Tester”.
Tap the “I’m In” button and then click “Join” to confirm.
Now all you have to do is wait for the update to the beta version of the app.
Joining the WhatsApp beta on iPhone is more difficult, and has limited capacity.
Follow Apple’s guide here.
