More than a decade ago from a humble beginnings on the iPhone, WhatsApp has grown to a must have messaging app for all and sundry. In USA it is the No. 1 messaging platform at the moment and despite being banned in China, it is still the No. 1 messaging app all around the globe. It has got more than 2 billion monthly users and 5 Billion Play Store downloads.
WhatsApp has improved the user experience to a great degree and now in addition to the new emoji and updated voice messaging which were released in this week now beta users are starting to see new tools to interact with phone numbers sent in the messages. Now when tapping a number from a chat, the previous behavior was to send that number to your dialer app so that you could get a call going. After this, WhtsApp presents a pop-up dialog first. The app checks to see if the line is associated with any WhatsApp account and if so provides you the option to start a chat with the user. This feature is showing up in the beta 2.22.8.22 release at the moment for Android and is currently rolling out.
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Google Photos wants to highlight best part of your videos with Snippets
Though Google Photos lost on the unlimited storage in 2021 but still it is the most famous app of Google. It is almost indispensable for sorting out the extensive collections of the images and videos, while some AI tools allows you to highlight treasured memories each day. Some of the users have spotted an extra category in Google Photos that is a hint at a fresh way for sharing as well as watching smaller sections of the videos.
Reports are that there is a new option for snippets appeared in the search tab in photos. Now based on how the search page appears, snippets appear to be a new creation category along with the collages and animations. The icon shows strip if film, implying this will take a smaller section to a longer video for creating easily shareable clip. There are also reports that an option has been added to save specific snippets appearing in the app’s main carousel of the highlighted content.