WhatsApp has become very active in recent months in adding new features in order to make it more user friendly. In 2022, Meta has announced some new privacy changes to its platform, including ability to hide your online status from specific contacts, exit group chats without informing anyone. WhatsApp has also introduced Communities which is another key new feature which is currently under development and it should be released at the end of 2022. With loads of impressive new additions, it is very common for the bugs to come out, in order to ensure that you can report them easily, WhatsApp is working on overhauling bug reporting system.

WhatsApp beta for Android v2.22.19.12 has introduced a new Report bug option, letting you to send detailed bug reports to Meta. Currently if you need to report the issues to WhatsApp, you are required to use Contact Us section in the app. However, the app has not clarified that you can use it for bug reporting. WhatsApp always tests the new features for at least few weeks on its beta channel before releasing them to public. But with loads of new features as well as hundreds of devices running a different flavor of the OS, users are bound to run into problems sooner than later. An improved bug reporting system will encourage users to reach out WhatsApp actively.

Google Contacts was one of the first Google apps to get Material You design in July 2021. Android 13 does not pack many visual changes as the last year’s release. Google developers have got their focus towards ease of use and homogeneity across the app offerings of the company.

Last year, Google provided Gmail some very easy-to-access search filters for it Android app, dubbed chips. Chips allows you to sort your mail based on the sender, recipient, date, attachments and many more. Now major overhauling is being done for Google Contacts. There is a chip for filtering the contacts as well and it could be a great asset especially where someone you have been talking to works but can’t remember their name. you can also see it as a very handy tool for finding all of your work colleagues in one place.

Google Duo and Google Meet mergence has been very confusing for everyone involved. Once the merger is finished, the old Meet app will be phased out and what used to be Duo app will become Meet. Google Meet branding came to Duo app few weeks ago. This change is proving to be hard to handle for some Duo fans, because Google has brought back the old icon of Duo.
The latest update has brought back familiar blue launcher icon. It coexists with new four color Meet icon that was added but by tapping on either icon leads to same app being opened. Google has said that it made the decision in order to help the people who keep searching for Duo and can not find the app because the name has been changed. When you tap the Duo icon, the new Google Meet experience complete with splash screen that tells the transition in detail still shows up. The icon in original Meet app is still green, serving visual indicator that it will be phased out down. The icon of Duo should finally see it demise in few weeks or months once everyone is aware of the new merged experience.

Just recently, WhatsApp started the beta testing of its Communities feature on Android with the potential to improve group chat experience on the app. For the ones involved with the test, the option to create new Communities occupies a spot in tab bar on fat left-hand side alongside the options for chats, status and calls. This is the place which was used for be for camera, so how were you suppose to take the photos. Thankfully it looks like WhatsApp has found new spot for the camera.
WhatsApp camera shortcut had been available by swiping right on list of chats or in the tab bar on the left side. With the Communities taking its place, WABetaInfo observes missing shortcut could return, though now next to the search button as well as hamburger menu. Works for the relocation is in process and is not available to the beta users just yet and it is completely possible that the app could find another home for camera shortcut by the time Communities makes its way to stable channel. There is another possibility is a floating camera button like the one the users see in Status tab.

Mark Zuckerberg officially announced WhatsApp Communities in April 2022, allowing its users to create sub-groups within groups. He called it a major evolution of WhatsApp and told that it has entered testing phase. Since Communities would be a significant addition to messaging, the company planned to roll out slowly. Now it has been few months since the announcement but Communities has not made it to the users. That is now changing as select WhatsApp beta users have gained access to the feature.
It has been reported that Communities tab is showing up for creation users who updated to WhatsApp beta for Android v2.22.19.3. You can force close and then relaunch the app in order to see if that enables Communities for your account if you are already running latest beta. If you are one of the lucky ones who have access to this feature you will see Communities tab instead of Camera tab on the main WhatsApp screen. You can go to the tab and start by creating a Community where you can add up to 10 groups with support for up to 512 participants. A community member will decide which sub-group he/she needs to join based on the interest. They can exit the sub-group whenever they want without leaving community itself.

A major bug hit Facebook earlier today and this time it was not about a network glitch so people were not forced to go offline. This strange bug caused configuration change which flooded people’s feed with celebrity posts. The issue has been fixed by Facebook and the user feeds are back to normal.
This bug bombarded people’s feeds with random fan messages which were directed at celebrity accounts. These messages would target many celebrities like Shakira, Eminem, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and many more. This problem instantly gained attraction on other social networks and it is still trending on Twitter. It was an enormous bug that targeted some of the most famous and followed accounts on Facebook like Rihanna, Cristiano Ronaldo, Shakira and many more. all of them have more than 100 million followers each. It affected multiple countries across desktop and mobile devices.

It happens some times that you send a WhatsApp message to an unintended recipient or an unintended message is sent to intended recipient. You can delete the sent messages and not having see them ever again as long as you realize it on time. But what if you have delete a wrong message which was not meant to be deleted or to the worst scenario delete it for yourself instead of for all the recipients in group chat? WhatsApp is testing a way to undelete the message after deletion.
Two months ago WhatsApp was testing on the option to undo accidental message deletion. The feature is now rolling out to many beta testers on Android with version 2.22.18.13 of the app but some of the users could find the option to undelete older versions as well. Once you have deleted the message for yourself, a floating snackbar notification appears at the bottom confirming you for the deletion. It has also got undo button to help recover deleted message. It should be noted that snackbar is visible only for few seconds and that is all the time you need to change your mind and rescue message from the ether. Many of the apps have similar interface flow for undoing the task and Gmail is one of them.