WhatsApp has been extensively working on the new tools to help you manage the chat groups in its app. The instant messenger has got a feature letting the admins to delete other user’s messages and we have also seen work towards allowing the admins decide who is permitted to join a group chat.
The admin approval feature is a welcome change for safeguarding user privacy and fight against spam especially in the larger groups. It will also prevent potential harassment of the group members. One of the advantages of the feature is that admins can cross-check with existing group members to verify authenticity of a chat request in case they have suspicions. It seems like a major positive move for messaging app. All the users are eagerly waiting for the arrival of this feature.

Snapchat is launching a new supervision tool that will mimic how parents and teenagers interact in real world. The newly introduced Family Center hub allows parents as well as guardians to keep tabs on who their children message with on the app without disclosing what they are saying to each other. Both the child and guardian need to accept the Family Center invite before oversight tool can take effect. Once invitation is accepted, a guardian can see the list of their child’s friends and list of the accounts that they have interacted with over last week.
The developers at Snapchat said that their goal was to create a set of tools designed to reflect the dynamics of real-world relationships and foster collaboration as well as trust between the teens and parents. The feature is meant to copy real-life relationships like when a parent allows a kid’s friends come over but does not monitor everything which they say.

There are some instances where you are required to have a closer look at the video. There are some apps which allow you to zoom into the video like Telegram. YouTube, the number 1 video sharing website was lacking on zooming into video. But the wait is over now as YouTube has added new function on the experimental features page. Some of the Premium users of YouTube are now able to pinch and zoom into a video for better look.
This feature is only available on YouTube app for Android and it is still unclear whether it will stay limited to Premium users. It can be found in Premium benefits menu within profile settings. The pinch-to-zoom feature will be up for demo until 1st September. After that, chances are that it will roll out officially or a launch date will be announced if there are any issues with functionality. Apart from this, YouTube is also making it easy for the content creators to make money on the platform. The app will allow you to use copyrighted content in your videos so that you can avoid any copyright claims and continue to generate revenue from your videos.

WhatsApp has been developing many new features and now a days they are focusing on group chats. The have recently increased member limit in group chats from 100 to 512 and have announced Communities which is a new way to message like-minded people. With the large groups, administrators as well as members would like to keep a tab on members who recently left the conversation.
WhatsApp new beta version 22.16.0.75 on iPhone lets group members and admins to see who quit the group or was removed from it in last two months. Under the list of current participants in Group info tab, a new option known as ‘See Post Participants’ is now visible. The list of removed members also gets dedicated search bar which could be useful for large threads where there is usually constant exodus of members and an influx of new ones. There are some small businesses which use WhatsApp groups for internal communication or interacting with clients might appreciate this feature. The present system of notifying the chat when a member leaves or gets booted is being removed.

WhatsApp did not pioneer group chats but it was very instrumental in making them a very important part of our lives. WhatsApp now owned by Meta has been around for more than a decade now. Group chat has been a feature of WhatsApp since 2011. However the group administrators don’t have control over chat itself. Now WhatsApp is giving more powers to the group admin as they can delete messages sent by other members.
At the moment, WhatsApp group administrator can only boot the members and control who joins and who can send the messages. Tools for moderating activity in chat are extremely limited and it is not possible to delete the messages at the moment. The upcoming builds of messages app could allow the group admins delete the messages sent by participants by long-tapping them and selecting the ‘delete for everyone’ option. The chat will retain placeholder for deleted message mentioning name of the administrator who deleted it.

TikTok is discovering new ways to attract the users and recently they have planned to add HTML 5 mini-games to keep the users amused while browsing videos. A spokesperson of TikTok has said that they are planning to enrich our platform and regularly test new features as well as integrations that bring value to the community.
At the moment the stakeholders at TikTok are exploring the possibility of bringing HTML5 games to TikTok through integrations with 3rd party game developers as well as studios. The rumors about the TikTok’s HTML5 mini-games have been around since the start of 2022. Mobile game developer Zynga partnered with TikTok to launch Disco Loco 3D which is a similar game Zynga’s other famous title High Heels. TikTok has now partnered with many other developers and studios and when the feature will be implemented, it will surely give boost to TikTok over its compatriots.

Google is trying to ensure that all of their apps look cohesive and work in a same manner. It is the reason Google is bringing Gmail app’s old customizable swipe actions to latest Messages beta. With Gmail you have got loads of options and you can swipe to snooze emails, mark them read r unread, delete them or archive them. At the moment the stable build of Messages only archives a message whether you swipe left or right on it. But it is changing now for the beta users and the new Messages build starts to give the users the options to configure different behavior for swipes. Both left and right swipes are customizable and you can pick from two actions deleting thread or archiving it and just doing nothing at all.