WhatsApp Updated: Network Tweaks, High Res Wallpaper and New Media Viewer

15 years ago

One of my all time favourite cross-platform messaging apps is WhatsApp, which just received an update. The previous major update brought the much anticipated group chat feature. Today’s version 2.6.3 brings the following changes:

– VoiceOver Accessability fixes
– Network protocol optimizations
– New high resolution wallpaper in WhatsApp > Settings > Chat Settings > Wallpaper
– fix Group Notifications for ‘In-App vibration’ and ‘In-App sound’ in WhatsApp > Settings > Notifications
– “Exit All Groups” in Settings
– added ability to forward media into Groups
– “Email chat history” in Settings now asks “With Media” or “Without Media”
– full localization updates
– new media viewer
– fix location crash on some iOS 4.3 devices
– fix playing audio and video sent from non-iOS devices
– group chat size increased to 10 (was 5)

The ability to exit all groups and to email chat history with or without media is a nice touch. But my favourite is the addition of new high resolution chat wallpapers. The corkboard wallpaper is a nice look.

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