WhatsApp for Android Beta 2.23.11.19 Obtain

WhatsApp Beta for Android permits you to benefit from the newest additions to the messaging service earlier than they hit the ultimate launch on the Google Play Retailer. The newest Beta provides the lengthy awaited Darkish Theme function. Extra directions on find out how to allow it are within the description beneath.

WhatsApp is accessible for Android, iPhone / iOS and Home windows & Mac. WhatsApp is a cross-platform messaging service, so these units can all message one another. As a result of WhatsApp Messenger makes use of the identical web information plan that you just use for e mail and net searching, there isn’t any price to message and keep in contact with your pals.

Along with fundamental messaging WhatsApp customers can create teams, ship one another limitless pictures, video and audio media messages.

Options

• No hidden prices: When you and your pals obtain the applying, you should use it to talk as a lot as you need. Ship 1,000,000 messages a day to your pals at no cost! WhatsApp makes use of your Web connection: Edge/3G/4G or Wi-Fi when out there.
• Multimedia: Ship Video, Photos, and Voice notes to your pals and contacts.
• Group Chat: Take pleasure in group conversations along with your contacts. Add or Take away group contributors, change group topic and set a bunch icon.
• Private: Set a profile photograph which shall be proven to all of your contacts
• No worldwide prices: Similar to there isn’t any added price to ship a world e mail, there isn’t any price to ship WhatsApp messages internationally. Chat with your pals everywhere in the world so long as they’ve WhatsApp Messenger put in and keep away from these pesky worldwide SMS prices.
• Say no to pins and usernames: Why even hassle having to recollect one more PIN or username? WhatsApp works along with your cellphone quantity, identical to SMS would, and integrates flawlessly along with your present cellphone deal with e-book.
• No have to log in/out: No extra confusion about getting logged off from one other pc or system. With push notifications WhatsApp is all the time on and all the time related.
• No want so as to add buddies: Your Handle E book is used to robotically join you along with your contacts. Your contacts who have already got WhatsApp Messenger shall be robotically displayed beneath Favorites, just like a buddy checklist.
• Offline Messages: Even in the event you miss your push notifications or flip off your iPhone, WhatsApp will save your messages offline till you retrieve them throughout the subsequent utility use.
• And far more: Share location and locations, Change contacts, Customized wallpaper, Customized notification sounds, Panorama mode, Message timestamps, E mail chat historical past, Broadcast messages and media to many contacts directly, and far far more.

What’s New

New Methods to Take pleasure in WhatsApp Standing

Standing is a well-liked method to share ephemeral updates with mates and shut contacts on WhatsApp. They disappear in 24 hours and should embody images, movies, GIFs, textual content, and extra. Similar to your private chats and calls, your WhatsApp standing is protected by end-to-end encryption so you’ll be able to share privately and securely.

We’re excited so as to add a set of latest options to standing on WhatsApp that make it simpler to specific your self and join with others.

Personal Viewers Selector

Each standing you share could not all the time be proper for all your contacts. We’re offering you with the pliability to replace your privateness settings per standing so you’ll be able to select who views your standing every time you replace it. Your most up-to-date viewers choice shall be saved and used because the default in your subsequent standing.

Voice Standing

We’re introducing the flexibility to report and share voice messages as much as 30 seconds on WhatsApp standing. Voice standing can be utilized for sending extra private updates, particularly in the event you really feel extra comfy expressing your self by speaking relatively than typing.

Standing Reactions

We’re including standing reactions to offer a fast and straightforward approach to answer standing updates from your pals and shut contacts. This was the #1 function customers needed, following the launch of Reactions final 12 months. Now you can shortly reply to any standing by swiping up and tapping on certainly one of eight emojis. You’ll be able to after all nonetheless reply to a standing with textual content, voice message, stickers and extra.

Standing Profile Rings for New Updates

With the brand new standing profile ring you will by no means miss a standing from a beloved one. This ring shall be current round your contact’s profile image every time they share a standing replace. It will likely be seen within the chat lists, group participant lists, and make contact with information.

Hyperlink Previews on Standing

Now if you put up a hyperlink in your standing, you will robotically see a visible preview of the hyperlink content material, identical to if you ship a message. Visible previews make your statuses look higher, and in addition give your contacts a greater thought of what the hyperlink is earlier than they click on.

These updates have began rolling out to customers globally and shall be out there to everybody within the coming weeks. We sit up for individuals having fun with these new standing options quickly.

Earlier launch notes

Avatars on WhatsApp

Right this moment we’re excited to deliver avatars to WhatsApp, a brand new and personalised method to specific your self.

Your avatar is a digital model of you that may be created from billions of mixtures of various hair types, facial options, and outfits. On WhatsApp now you can use your personalised avatar as your profile photograph or select from certainly one of 36 customized stickers reflecting many alternative feelings and actions.

Sending an avatar is a quick and enjoyable method to share emotions with family and friends. It can be an effective way to characterize your self with out utilizing your actual photograph so it feels extra personal.

For many individuals this would be the first time creating an avatar and we’ll proceed to ship type enhancements together with lighting, shading, hair type textures, and extra that may make avatars even higher over time.

We hope you get pleasure from creating and sharing your avatars, which shall be rolling out to customers in all places from right now.

Communities Now Out there!

As we shared earlier this 12 months, we have been onerous at work constructing Communities, a significant replace to how individuals will be capable of join on WhatsApp within the teams that matter to them. Right this moment, we’re excited to announce we have began to roll out Communities on WhatsApp globally and this shall be out there to everybody over the subsequent few months.

Communities like neighborhoods, dad and mom at a college, and workplaces can now join a number of teams collectively beneath one umbrella to arrange group conversations on WhatsApp. To get began, faucet on the brand new communities tab on the high of your chats on Android and on the backside on iOS. From there you can begin a brand new Neighborhood from scratch or add present teams.

When you’re in a neighborhood, you’ll be able to simply change between out there teams to get the knowledge you want, if you want it, and admins can ship necessary updates to everybody within the Neighborhood

With Communities, we’re aiming to lift the bar for a way organizations talk with a stage of privateness and safety not discovered wherever else. The options out there right now require trusting apps or software program firms with a duplicate of their messages – and we expect they deserve the upper stage of safety offered by end-to-end encryption.

Right this moment we’re additionally releasing three extra options we expect customers shall be enthusiastic about: the flexibility to create in-chat polls, 32 individual video calling, and teams with as much as 1024 customers. Similar to emoji reactions, bigger file sharing, and admin delete, these options can be utilized in any group however shall be significantly useful for Communities.

We have been working with over 50 organizations in 15 nations to construct Communities to satisfy their wants. We’re excited that the suggestions we have heard to date is these new instruments are serving to teams like these higher manage and obtain their objectives. There’s much more we plan to construct and we’ll hold including options over the approaching months. For now, we’re excited to get this into extra individuals’s arms and listen to your suggestions too.

New Options for Extra Privateness, Extra Safety, Extra Management

Go away Teams Silently: We love our group chats however some will not be endlessly. We’re making it doable to exit a bunch privately with out making it a giant deal to everybody. Now, as an alternative of notifying the total group if you find yourself leaving, solely the admins shall be notified. This function will begin to roll out to all customers this month.

Select Who Can See When You are On-line: Seeing when mates or household are on-line helps us really feel related to 1 one other, however we have all had instances once we needed to test our WhatsApp privately. For the moments you wish to hold your on-line presence personal, we’re introducing the flexibility to pick out who can and may’t see if you’re on-line. This can begin rolling out to all customers this month.

Screenshot Blocking For View As soon as Messages: View As soon as is already an extremely standard method to share images or media that need not have a everlasting digital report. Now we’re enabling screenshot blocking for View As soon as messages for an added layer of safety. We’re testing this function now and are excited to roll it out to customers quickly.

• Updates to messages reactions together with the flexibility to react with any emoji plus further enhancements and fixes.
• Elevated the group participant restrict to 512
• Elevated max file measurement restrict to 2GB
• On group calls, you’ll be able to mute others or message them by lengthy urgent on their tile

Earlier launch notes

Some new options for group calls on: Now you can mute or message particular individuals on a name (nice if somebody forgets to mute themselves!), and we have added a useful indicator so you’ll be able to extra simply see when extra individuals be part of massive calls.

Disappearing messages

You’ll be able to ship messages that disappear on WhatsApp by enabling disappearing messages. You’ll be able to select to have messages disappear after 24 hours, 7 days, or 90 days. As soon as enabled, new messages despatched within the chat will disappear after the period you choose. The newest choice controls new messages within the chat. Messages despatched or acquired earlier than disappearing messages is enabled will not be affected.

Reactions, 2GB File Sharing, 512 Teams

As we introduced final month with our imaginative and prescient for Communities on WhatsApp, we’re now constructing for organizations, companies, and different close-knit teams to speak securely and get issues carried out on WhatsApp. The suggestions we have acquired to date has been very optimistic and we will not wait to get many new options into individuals’s arms.

We’re excited to share that emoji reactions at the moment are out there on the most recent model of the app. Reactions are enjoyable, quick, they usually scale back overload in teams too. We’ll proceed enhancing them by including an excellent broader vary of expressions sooner or later.

As well as, now you can ship information inside WhatsApp as much as 2GB in measurement at a time, protected by end-to-end encryption. This is a rise from the earlier restrict of 100MB and we expect shall be useful for collaboration amongst small companies and college teams. We suggest utilizing WiFi for bigger information and we’ll show a counter whereas importing or downloading to let you understand how lengthy your switch will take.

One of many high requests we have persistently acquired is the choice so as to add extra individuals to a chat, so now we’re slowly rolling out the flexibility so as to add as much as 512 individuals to a bunch. Constructing personal, secure, and safe communities takes work and we expect this sequence of enhancements will assist individuals and teams keep shut to 1 one other.

We hope individuals get pleasure from these updates and sit up for sharing extra all year long.

Extra Management and Privateness with Default Disappearing Messages and A number of Durations

Our mission is to attach the world privately. As extra of our conversations transfer from face-to-face to digital, we acknowledge there’s a sure magic in simply sitting down with somebody in-person, sharing your ideas in confidence, figuring out you might be each connecting in personal and in that second. The liberty to be sincere and susceptible, figuring out that dialog is not being recorded and saved someplace endlessly.

Deciding how lengthy a message lasts needs to be in your arms. We have turn out to be accustomed to leaving a digital copy of nearly all the pieces we kind with out even fascinated about it. It is turn out to be the equal of a observe taker following us round making a everlasting report of all the pieces we have stated. That is why we launched disappearing messages final 12 months, and extra just lately a approach for images and movies to right away disappear after being seen as soon as.

Right this moment we’re excited to offer our customers with extra choices to regulate their messages and the way lengthy they stick round, with default disappearing messages and a number of durations.

WhatsApp customers will now have the choice to activate disappearing messages by default for all new chats. When enabled, all new one-on-one chats you or one other individual begin shall be set to vanish at your chosen period, and we have added a brand new choice when creating a bunch chat that allows you to flip it on for teams you create. This new function is elective and doesn’t change or delete any of your present chats.

We’re additionally including two new durations for disappearing messages: 24 hours and 90 days, in addition to the prevailing choice of seven days.

For individuals who select to modify on default disappearing messages, we are going to show a message in your chats that tells individuals that is the default you have chosen. This makes clear it is nothing private – it is a alternative you have made about the way you wish to talk with everybody on WhatsApp transferring ahead. Although after all, in the event you want a specific dialog to stay everlasting, it is simple to modify a chat again.

Residing other than household and mates for over a 12 months has made it clearer than ever that simply because we will not bodily speak in individual, it does not imply we must always need to sacrifice the privateness of our private conversations. We consider disappearing messages together with end-to-end encryption are two essential options that outline what it means to be a non-public messaging service right now, and produce us one step nearer to the sensation of an in-personal dialog.

To get began, go to your Privateness settings and choose ‘Default Message Timer’. You’ll be able to be taught extra right here.

Finish-to-Finish Encrypted Backups on WhatsApp

WhatsApp was constructed on a easy thought: what you share along with your family and friends stays between you. 5 years in the past, we added end-to-end encryption by default, which right now protects over 100 billion messages a day as they journey between greater than 2 billion customers.

Whereas end-to-end encrypted messages you ship and obtain are saved in your system, many individuals additionally desire a method to again up their chats in case they lose their cellphone. Beginning right now, we’re making out there an additional, elective layer of safety to guard backups saved on Google Drive or iCloud with end-to-end encryption. No different world messaging service at this scale supplies this stage of safety for his or her customers’ messages, media, voice messages, video calls, and chat backups.

Now you can safe your end-to-end encrypted backup with both a password of your alternative or a 64-digit encryption key that solely . Neither WhatsApp nor your backup service supplier will be capable of learn your backups or entry the important thing required to unlock it.

With greater than 2 billion customers, we’re excited to provide individuals extra decisions to guard their privateness. We shall be rolling this function out slowly to these with the most recent model of WhatsApp.

Taking Your Chats with You

Your WhatsApp messages belong to you. That is why your private WhatsApp messages are protected by end-to-end encryption and why we offer methods to make them robotically disappear out of your chats.

One of the crucial requested options we have had is to make it doable to switch chat historical past from one working system to a different when switching telephones. We have been onerous at work with working system and system producers to construct it in a safe and dependable approach.

We’re excited to begin rolling out the flexibility to maneuver your WhatsApp historical past from iOS to Android. This occurs with out your messages being despatched to WhatsApp within the course of and contains voice messages, images and movies. To start out, this function is accessible on any Samsung system operating Android 10 or increased, and shall be out there on extra Android units quickly.

Whenever you arrange a brand new system, you will be supplied with the choice to securely switch your chats out of your outdated system to your new one. This course of would require a USB-C to Lightning cable.

View As soon as Pictures and Movies on WhatsApp

Whereas taking images or movies on our telephones has turn out to be such a giant a part of our lives, not all the pieces we share must turn out to be a everlasting digital report. On many telephones, merely taking a photograph means it would take up area in your digital camera roll endlessly.

That is why right now we’re rolling out new View As soon as images and movies that disappear from the chat after they have been opened, giving customers much more management over their privateness.

For instance, you would possibly ship a View As soon as photograph of some new garments you are making an attempt on at a retailer, a fast response to a second in time, or one thing delicate like a Wi-Fi password.

As with all the non-public messages you ship on WhatsApp, View As soon as media is protected by end-to-end encryption so WhatsApp can not see them. They will even be clearly marked with a brand new “one-time” icon.

After the media has been seen, the message will seem as “opened” to keep away from any confusion about what was taking place within the chat on the time.

We’re rolling out the function to everybody beginning this week and are wanting ahead to suggestions on this new method to ship personal and disappearing media.

Easy methods to use Whatsapp View As soon as

For added privateness, now you can ship images and movies that disappear out of your WhatsApp chat after the recipient has opened them as soon as.

• Media won’t be saved to the recipient’s Pictures or Gallery.
• When you ship a view as soon as photograph or video, you will not be capable of view it once more.
• You’ll be able to’t ahead, save, star, or share images or movies that had been despatched or acquired with view as soon as media enabled.
• You’ll be able to solely see if a recipient has opened a view as soon as photograph or video if they’ve learn receipts turned on.
• If you happen to do not open the photograph or video inside 14 days of it being despatched, the media will expire from the chat.
• You will need to choose view as soon as media every time you wish to ship a view as soon as photograph or video.
• View as soon as media could be restored from backup if the message is unopened on the time of again up. If the photograph or video has already been opened, the media won’t be included within the backup and cannot be restored.

Notice:

• Solely ship images or movies with view as soon as media enabled to trusted people. For instance, it is doable for somebody to:
• Take a screenshot or display recording of the media earlier than it disappears. You will not be notified if somebody takes a screenshot or display recording.
• Take a photograph or video of the media with a digital camera or different system earlier than it disappears.
• Encrypted media could also be saved for a number of weeks on WhatsApp’s servers after you have despatched it.
• If a recipient chooses to report view as soon as media, the media shall be offered to WhatsApp. You will discover out extra about reporting messages on WhatsApp on this article.

Darkish Mode is lastly right here! To put in comply with these directions:

1. Obtain the file discovered right here.
2. Open Whatsapp, contact the three dot menu within the higher proper nook and choose Settings.
3. In Settings, choose Chats (Theme, wallpapers, chat historical past)
4. In Chats, choose Theme and inside Theme you’ll discover Darkish.

Earlier launch notes:

• Whenever you obtain a hyperlink to a video from locations like Instagram, Fb and YouTube, now you can play it proper inside WhatsApp. With picture-in-picture, you’ll be able to hold watching the video when you chat
• You’ll be able to reply to a bunch message privately in your 1:1 chat. Faucet and maintain a message in a bunch chat and choose ‘Reply Privately’.

Introducing Stickers

From emoji and digital camera options to Standing and animated GIFs, we’re all the time wanting so as to add new options that make speaking with family and friends on WhatsApp simple and enjoyable. We’re excited to introduce a brand new approach for individuals to specific themselves with stickers. Whether or not with a smiling teacup or a crying damaged coronary heart, stickers enable you to share your emotions in a approach that you may’t all the time specific with phrases. To start out, we’re launching sticker packs created by our designers at WhatsApp and a collection of stickers from different artists.

We have additionally added assist for third-party sticker packs to permit designers and builders around the globe to create stickers for WhatsApp. To do that, we have included a set of APIs and interfaces that can help you construct sticker apps that add stickers to WhatsApp on Android or iOS. You’ll be able to publish your sticker app like some other app to the Google Play Retailer or Apple App Retailer, and customers who obtain and set up your app will be capable of begin sending these stickers proper from inside WhatsApp.

To make use of stickers in a chat, merely faucet the brand new sticker button and choose the sticker you wish to share. You’ll be able to add new sticker packs by tapping the plus icon.

Share your stay location

We’re rolling out a brand new function that permits you to share your location in real-time with household or mates. Whether or not you are assembly up with mates, letting family members know you are secure, or sharing your commute, Reside Location is an easy and safe method to let individuals know the place you might be. This end-to-end encrypted function permits you to management who you share with and for a way lengthy. You’ll be able to select to cease sharing at any time or let the Reside Location timer merely expire.

Here is the way it works. Open a chat with the individual or group you wish to share with. Below “Location” within the connect button, there is a new choice to “Share Reside Location.” Select for a way lengthy you wish to share and faucet ship. Every individual within the chat will be capable of see your real-time location on a map. And if a couple of individual shares their Reside Location within the group, all areas shall be seen on the identical map.

Reside Location is accessible on each Android and iPhone and shall be rolling out within the app within the coming weeks. We hope you prefer it.

Net shopper for desktop computer systems

The desktop app is accessible for Home windows and macOS, and is synced with WhatsApp in your cell system. As a result of the app runs natively in your desktop, you will have assist for native desktop notifications, higher keyboard shortcuts, and extra. Upon downloading and opening the app, scan the QR code utilizing the WhatsApp app in your cellphone (search for WhatsApp Net menu beneath Settings).