From 'Private Audience Selector' To 'Link Previews', WhatsApp Brings 5 New Features To …

WhatsApp released major updates to its Status feature.Instant messaging platform WhatsApp on Tuesday launched a number of updates to one of its key features – the Status. The company said it will give the users more ways to connect with their friends and family. The five major updates include Private Audience Selector, which allows users to select the privacy settings for each status they share. The Status feature was launched by WhatsApp on February 24, 2017, the company’s eighth birthday.WhatsApp also said that the audience a user chooses through Private Audience Selector will be saved and used as the default for your next status.Other major updates released by the messaging platform are addition of a Voice Status, which will give WhatsApp users the ability to record and share voice messages up to 30 seconds on their status. Further, Status Reactions will allow users to quickly respond to status updates from friends and close contacts using one of eight emojis. WhatsApp said this was the top feature users wanted after the launch of Reactions last year.The Status Reaction update will also allow users to reply to a status with text, voice message, stickers and more.The platform has also added Status Profile
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