WhatsApp has a new update for iOS users. The Facebook-owned messaging service brings in Instagram-like location and time stickers which can be added to photos or videos. The update will arrive soon for Android users.
This new feature in WhatsApp is already seen in Instagram and Snapchat. To give you a brief, Instagram lets you add time and location stickers along with other stickers to photos and videos that you share as Stories, which automatically disappear after 24 hours.
iPhone users will need to update their app to version 2.18.30. To try out this feature, open a contact you want to share the picture/video with. Then click on the '+' plus icon and click ‘Photo & Video Library’ and then select a file of your choice. You can now click on the ‘smiley’ button which is placed on the top bar. Once you click it, you will see the time and location stickers. You can also drag and reposition the sticker as you wish.
Additionally, the update also allows users find a group member directly from the Group Chat window. This feature allows you to search for a particular user and message them on private chat.
Recently, WhatsApp's new feature, which allows users to delete embarrassing messages isn’t completely full proof. Reportedly, this feature will not work when a user has already quoted the message, you wish to hide.
According to a report by The Next Web, it would appear that this feature works the same way in group chats and private chats as well. Apparently, this isn’t a bug but in fact, is a part of the feature.
Up until now, if a user sent a message and deleted it from a group or individual chat within seven minutes, the message would disappear. However, if within these seven minutes, that message is quoted, then the original message will successfully disappear but the deleted text continues to show in the recipient's quote respectively. There is no clarification provided in the WhatsApp's FAQ as to how this feature works.
For a while now, researchers have discovered shortcomings in WhatsApp’s implementation of deleted messages. Recently, a report claimed that recipients can easily have access to the deleted messages as they are saved in the device.
