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03rd Mar 2016

7 new things you can do on WhatsApp when you get latest update

Joe Harrington

Some cool, some great.

In case you didn’t realise, there’s a new WhatsApp update sitting in your App Store or Google Play App Store.

We downloaded it today and there are some pretty nifty new features on the update.

WhatsApp

Here’s a rundown on all the news features:

  1. You can now have a group with up to 256 people. Why? Not a clue, but you can.
  2. You can send .pdf files or other documents. Handy for work.
  3. You can zoom in while a video is playing by pinching the screen. It worked well when we tried it (iPhone only).
  4. There’s a shared link history option which keeps track of all the links you send in a conversation.
  5. You can now have starred messages which will be saved even if you delete a chat.
  6. You can set the chat background to a solid colour.
  7. You can share photos or videos from Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive directly to WhatsApp.

Enjoy the new features.