WhatsApp for iOS gets large emoticons, zoom while recording video

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WhatsApp developers are gradually rolling out the features that they had been testing in closed beta test groups. Some of the features touted and mentioned in the leaks arrived with the latest Apple iOS update yesterday. The most prominent of new features include large emojis which was uncovered in the app code weeks back.

In addition to bigger emoji, you can now zoom in and out while recording videos in WhatsApp by sliding your finger up and down. Chat improvements are also part of the update as you can now select multiple chats to quickly archive, delete, or mark as read. The optimisations extend to improving average chat load time in addition to the message management. Most of the new features on WhatsApp are initially rolled out to iOS versions of the app and later come to the Android version of the app.

WABetaInfo
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New in #WhatsApp #beta for #iOS 2.16.8.16.
Please read the changelog too.
#whatsappbeta

Upcoming features discovered by WABetaInfo include the addition of drawing tools in the add photos section. The long-rumored feature of native GIF support will come soon with GIPHY support to improve the implementation. WABetaInfo also found code which pointed out at a newer bubble UI being tested for WhatsApp chats.

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"Chat improvements are also part of the update as you can now select multiple chats to quickly archive, delete, or mark as read. The optimisations extend to improving average chat load time in addition to the message management. Most of the new features on WhatsApp are initially rolled out to iOS versions of the app and later come to the Android version of the app."

The above mentioned feature is launched on Android more than a month back so Android is the first one to get that feature and not apple!