As a reliable chatting app, WhatsApp keeps updating its features to make sure every user of the app around the world loves it. Before WhatsApp new update today, this app is lack of feature compared to its competitor, the Telegram app.
But after the latest update, WhatsApp is ready to regain the trust of its users everywhere. However, Meta may add the latest update changes only to the regular WhatsApp app, not to the WhatsApp Business app. If you haven’t updated your WhatsApp, get to know what’s new with this chatting app.
What’s Special About WhatsApp New Update Today
WhatsApp has been taking some steps so that it can improve the app’s overall experience. The main goal of the app is to make sure that users experience higher privacy. Today, users of WhatsApp for Android can enjoy these awesome features on their regular WhatsApp version.
1. Chat Lock
A new update on WhatsApp everyone can use now is the chat lock feature. This feature allows you to lock only one or some chats in WhatsApp. This is a new feature to hide WhatsApp chats from stalkers. No one will be able to open and read those locked chats with no passcode.
Make sure that you have updated your WhatsApp to the latest version. Then, you will be able to find the chat lock feature. To activate this feature, create a passcode in advance. Follow these steps to lock a chat you want to hide from everyone.
Run your regular WhatsApp app and then select a chat.
To select a chat, tap and hold it until you see a green tick on the chat’s profile picture.
Then tap the More Options button or the three dots on the top right corner.
Select the lock chat option and then click continue.
On the latest WhatsApp update, your chat will be automatically locked. Only those who know the passcode can access the chat. This feature will only work on the Android version of WhatsApp. If you link it to a WhatsApp desktop, the chat you have locked will remain unlocked in the desktop version.
2. Switch Accounts
The WhatsApp new update today also allows you to have two different WhatsApp accounts on one app. Telegram was the one that released this awesome feature at first. Then Meta’s Instagram allows its users to access up to 5 different accounts on an Instagram app.
Now, the new WhatsApp version comes with a Switch Accounts option. You can access two different WhatsApp accounts on one phone. First of all, you need to add another account to the app. Then, you will be able to switch between accounts easily later.
Launch your Android WhatsApp and then tap the More Options button.
Click Settings and there will be a drop-down button next to the QR code button.
Tap that drop-down icon and then add a new WhatsApp account.
Set up your new account and it will be ready to use.
To access this WhatsApp new update today, simply tap the More Options button on the top right corner of your WhatsApp screen. Now, tap the Switch Accounts button to access another account instantly. There’s no need to use WhatsApp Business or another phone for another WhatsApp.
3. More privacy features
Rumor said that Meta is now working on a new privacy feature. The latest privacy feature will prevent people from taking screenshots of your profile picture. This new feature is going to protect your privacy so that no one will be able to steal your photos without permission.
When someone is going to take screenshots of your profile picture, a notification is going to appear on the screen, saying ‘can’t take a screenshot due to app restrictions’. However, this and some other new update changes are still rumors. No detail officially comes from Meta.
Broadcast Your New WhatsApp Account
If you decide to use a new WhatsApp account on the same app, make sure that you let everyone know about your new account so that they can keep in touch with you. Broadcast the details of your new WhatsApp account using SMS Broadcaster’s Hitech Terminal Enterprise device.
This magnificent device is going to let you send text messages to hundreds of people. Take the device anywhere you go and it will send text messages to many more people. This way, you can maximize the use of the latest WhatsApp new update today.