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Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp appears to have a new feature to offer every other time.  The latest beta of the chat platform revealed that it would soon launch a language picker feature for users who want to manually choose a particular language for the application. WhatsApp 'App Language' Feature (Photo : Dima Solomin from Unsplash)WhatsApp's latest beta hint on the future release of an app language where you can manually select a language of your choice on your phone. On Tuesday, March 22, Android Police reported that there's an upcoming feature that WhatsApp users should anticipate in the future. The beta update for Android 2.22.8.3 presented an interesting feature about changing the app language in the platform. Right now, there are more than 60 available languages in the said messaging platform. In addition, the language of your WhatsApp will depend on your phone so you have no freedom in altering it. However, with the future update, you can now select your preferred language that you want to use in WhatsApp. As a reliable source, WABETAInfo wrote on its recent blog, the application is now gearing up to unveil this new feature for version 2.22.8.3 through the Google Play Beta Program. It…

Last year, when the pandemic was at its peak, the Indian government sought a solution to eradicate misinformation and empower citizens with the right steps to take precautionary measures and stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. This 24/7 digital helpdesk had to answer COVID-19 queries and handle the scale and diversity of queries being directed from millions of users across the country in English and Hindi. Within just five days, Jio Haptik built the MyGov Corona Helpdesk, a WhatsApp chatbot that helped users check symptoms and get a diagnosis and provided tips and precautionary measures to stay safe. Moreover, it also shared the latest updates and advisories from the Ministry of Health. Leading D2C brand which recently received a deal from Peyush Bansal, Co-Founder, Lenskart, at Shark Tank India, The State Plate was looking for a reliable solution to streamline their customer support. Within a few months of signing up with Interakt, a Jio Haptik product, it was able to resolve 1.5X more customer queries on WhatsApp. The brand uses the automated ticket assignment feature on WhatsApp Business API for routing the customer queries to the concerned team and getting them resolved, faster. There is a reason why these government…

WhatsApp chats You can keep WhatsApp chats hidden for as long as you like using this function. New Delhi: You can archive any of your WhatsApp chats to keep them hidden indefinitely. Even if new messages arrive, they will be hidden. Many times, such conversations are saved in WhatsApp's mailbox, where they are useless to us. You can keep WhatsApp chats hidden for as long as you like using this function. Here’s how to hide chat: Step 1: Open WhatsApp and choose the conversation you wish to save. Step 2: Three alternatives will be displayed above. Pin, muffle, and archive. Select the Archive option. Step 3: The Archive section will be shown at the top of your chat stream. You can always go to the section and access your secret chats. Step 4: Users can unarchive a chat by choosing it and then clicking the Unarchive button. Step 5: Go to the Chats page if you wish to archive all of the chats. Step6: Go to Settings by tapping More. Step7: Select Chats. Step8: Go to the Chat History page. Step9: Now, archive all of your chats. How to bring back chat: First and foremost, start WhatsApp. Scroll all the…

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has denied that British Army soldiers have been asked to delete WhatsApp.It follows reports suggesting there are fears of Russia hacking the mobile messaging app.An MOD spokesperson said: "We are not asking personnel to delete WhatsApp from their work phones and the advice is not linked to the Russian invasion of Ukraine."Alternative messaging apps can be more appropriate for work-related communication due to different types of security settings."The MOD highlights the use of an instant messaging service called Signal as an alternative option for personnel.The department says secure communications are always used at higher security classifications, adding that this is not a new policy.

The Portal Go is the first gadget in the growing line-up that ditches the plug (Image: META • EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS) This article contains affiliate links, we may receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Sign up for FREE for the biggest new releases, reviews and tech hacks Invalid emailWe use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More infoFacebook isn't known for its hardware, so we approached its latest effort – the Portal Go – with a certain amount of trepidation. Could a company best known for its algorithms and messaging software for other devices create a compelling tablet designed to make video calls easier? It turns out the answer is a resounding "yes".Mark Zuckerberg's social network has enjoyed immense success with its Portal brand in recent months. As the global pandemic forced us all to stay inside for months on end, families and friends desperate to keep in touch looked for the best solution. Portal's lineup is custom-designed for endless video calls – the clever…

How can I manage contacts and phone numbers in WhatsApp? March 20, 2022 at 7:30 AM You can also save the profile pictures of your contacts used in WhatsApp in the cell phone’s address book without much effort. With our method, you only need a few mouse clicks. Those of your contacts in WhatsApp Messenger The profile pictures used are not saved to the phone book, although this would be quite practical. You can still sync your WhatsApp contacts’ profile pictures easily with a small detour via the Contacts app, your linked GMail account, and your address book. No third-party apps from the Google Play Store are required for this. We have tried some of these apps without success and you can save the installation yourself. With the method we have shown here, you can easily transfer your WhatsApp contacts photos to your Google address book on your computer and thus to all the connected terminal devices without downloading or screenshots beforehand. The described method also works across other communication services available on the web, such as iCloud Contacts for iPhone and iPad or the contacts in your Microsoft account. By the way, you can use WhatsApp Completely deny access…

With Facebook and Instagram being banned, Russians are increasingly turning to Telegram messaging app for mass messaging in a way similar to social media. According to AFP, Telegram app has been downloaded over 150 million times since the beginning of the year, with the official figure of half a billion active users dating back to January last year. An average of 2.5 million new users joined Telegram daily in the last three weeks, the firm said, about a 25 per cent jump from the weeks prior, the firm said. Even though Meta-owned WhatsApp has managed duck from the ban list, Telegram’s ability to disseminate information to large groups at a time has made it useful both for independent media and the Kremlin. The trust on Telegram also stems from the fact that its creators, brothers Pavel and Nikolai Durov, are Russian citizens who left their home country in 2014. Despite Telegram’s tendonous growth in Russia, concerns over its data security and misinformation still remain. Also read | Ukraine-Russia conflict: Time for meaningful talks, says President Zelensky "Telegram's profile has grown enormously in recent weeks, and that has raised the stakes about the impact of misinformation on the platform", Enders Analysis media…

Home Photos On WhatsApp Payments, bank account balance can be checked this way on iPhone, Android phones On WhatsApp Payments, bank account balance on iPhone and Android phones can be checked very easily. WhatsApp Payments app uses the phone number associated with your account to identify your bank account information. By HT TECH | Updated on Mar 19 2022, 11:31 AM IST Open WhatsApp. If you have an Android, tap More options. If you have an iPhone, tap Settings. (Bloomberg) 1/5 Open WhatsApp. If you have an Android, tap More options. If you have an iPhone, tap Settings. (Bloomberg) Then click on Payments. Under Payment methods, click on the relevant bank account. (Reuters) 2/5 Then click on Payments. Under Payment methods, click on the relevant bank account. (Reuters) You will then have to click on view account balance. Enter your UPI PIN. And you are done! (Pixabay) 3/5 You will then have to click on view account balance. Enter your UPI PIN. And you are done! (Pixabay) You can also check account balance when sending money. From the payment message screen, you need to tap your available payment method. Then click on view account balance. (Reuters) 4/5 You can also…

A Delhi court has acquitted 12 persons of charges of criminal conspiracy against them in a case related to the February 2020 violence in the national Capital, Live Law reported on ThursdayThe court passed the order on March 15, and the order was made available on Thursday.The Delhi Police had alleged that a WhatsApp group named “Kattar Hindu Ekta” had been formed during violence in the city to plan the killings of Muslims and the vandalism of their properties, The Hindu reported. The court, however, held that the conversations on the WhatsApp group did not indicate that it had been formed to commit any illegal act. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat observed that an agreement among a group of people to commit an unlawful act cannot be inferred merely from messages posted on a WhatsApp group chat. While the court acquitted the 12 persons from the allegations of conspiracy, it framed other charges against them, including those of murder.“Careful analysis of these chats would reveal that the members were keeping themselves ready for any attack from other communities,” the judge said. The court added that at best, the chats showed that the members were preparing to defend themselves “against an…

WhatsApp photos Previously, you had to download a third-party programme from the Google Play store in order to turn it into WhatsApp stickers. New Delhi: WhatsApp first provided stickers to its users in 2018, and it has since been a popular way to use them while chatting. Previously, you had to use third-party programs to generate and send stickers for your images, which took a long time. However, you may now make your sticker without the assistance of a third-party app. Previously, you had to download a third-party programme from the Google Play store in order to turn it into WhatsApp stickers. However, you may now do this from within WhatsApp. This functionality is currently only available on WhatsApp Web. Custom stickers can be easily created using WhatsApp Web's sticker feature. Here's how to make customised WhatsApp stickers for yourself on special occasions, or if you want to wish someone during an upcoming festival or birthday, you may use these steps to make stickers on WhatsApp. To recall, WhatsApp introduced WhatsApp Sticker Maker, which allows users to make their own unique stickers. It has added the ability to turn any photo into a WhatsApp sticker. While it is now only…