San Francisco: Meta-owned WhatsApp is rolling out a brand new function that can let customers share images and movies as a doc on iOS to take care of their authentic high quality.
In keeping with the official changelog accompanying WhatsApp’s 23.24.73 replace on iOS, customers can now “simply ship authentic high quality media as a file”, as a substitute for the compressed approaches the app defaults to.
The brand new function was first noticed by WABetaInfo.
This function was examined by a choose group of customers in November.
The changelog acknowledged that this function shall be obtainable “within the coming weeks,” so it could take a while to indicate on customers’ smartphones. When it does, they will entry it by clicking the “+” in chat, deciding on “Doc,” after which “Select Picture or Video.”
The utmost file measurement that may be transferred utilizing this function is 2GB.
In the meantime, WhatsApp has launched a secret code function for tens of millions of customers, an extra approach to shield delicate chats on its platform.
With a secret code, the customers will have the ability to set a singular password totally different from what they use to unlock their telephones to provide their locked chats an additional layer of privateness.
“Rolling out secret code to Chat Lock on WhatsApp so you possibly can shield your chats with a singular password. Now you possibly can set your locked chats to solely seem once you sort the key code within the search bar, so nobody can unintentionally uncover your most non-public conversations,” Meta Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, mentioned on his WhatsApp Channel.