WhatsApp is busy in tweaking the features and functions with some new options for the messaging and are testing a feature of sharing the files as large as 2GB. WhatsApp is undoubtedly the most famous messaging app in the world as it has mpre than 5 billion Play Store downloads. Yet the updates to the WhatsApp features do not roll out to everyone at once and there are 2 billion monthly active users so a new camera interface has been introduced for Android users which was there for iOS devices for months.
According to some reports, some of the users are seeing a new and updated camera interface in the updates to the latest WhatsApp beta version for Android. It includes new look when selecting the media as well. The media bar of camera which has been removed in iOS has been restored.

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.

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.

Emoji has become an integral part of our texting as well as messaging lives. Some people use them rarely while many of them enjoy using them every now and then. If you want to use the emojis in a better way then there is a new feature introduced for Gboard that tries to make the choice for you.
Some of the users have started to see magic wand button on their keyboard. When you have finished writing the sentence, tapping the button will insert many emojis that Gboard thinks are the closest match to what you have written. It has got two modes and tapping once will put an emoji translation after your text and tapping it twice will insert the emoji between each word. Sometimes it works perfectly while in other sentences it is just hit-or-miss thing. At the moment it looks like you are required your keyboard set to English but we may see support for more languages in future. If you need to try it for your device you need to make sure that your Gboard app is updated fully and maybe sign up to the beta program.

TikTok is a fleeting experience by design and you scroll through your feed video by video hoping to come across something very funny, staggering or educational. Unless you share a clip it will disappear forever after few swipes. If you have ever lost a video which was worth-revisiting then there is a good news for you as TikTok is working on it now a days.
TikTok is planning to add a watch history to the app. According to some screenshots shared by XDA Developers, it will allow the viewers to go through the last seven days of the videos that they have viewed. They will be accessible via settings menu within the app. This feature is still in testing mode so it will take some time when it will be accessible to everyone. At the moment it is unclear who does and who does not have access to this feature. If it is in your phone then you will find it under ‘Content and Activity’ section on your preferences.
If you have forgotten to like a video then it is almost impossible to find that video unless you know who has uploaded that video and trying to find the video through the tags is nothing but a nightmare. If the video is viral enough you may find the mirrored versions on various other social networks like Twitter. Broadly speaking if a video on TikTok is gone then it is difficult to rediscover it. But the watch history will finally solve this problem.

Instagram is one of the leading social media app that allows its users to share their photos and videos. But now it looks like that this social media giant will also jump into social audio tools like Facebook Live Audio Rooms, Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces. You can send the voice notes via Instagram DMs but now a developer Alessandro Paluzzi who is known for reverse engineering the apps in order to find the upcoming features.
On Saturday, Paluzzi shared a screenshot from Instagram Stories with microphone icon in the field for replying to the stories and stated that Instagram is working on the ability to reply to Stories with voice messages. at the moment there are loads of things which are unknown. The Story reply by audio is pretty much similar like Snapchat but it can still be a big hit among the users.

For the die-hard Google users, it may not be the first choice but Apple Music is a very solid streaming choice even on Android. The company has done a fantastic job in implementing the platform with some staggering features that you will not find on iOS like some robust widgets complete wit playback controls. With the latest update, Apple Music is making the widgets even better and full of colors.
The latest update includes some enhancements to both of its widgets. The most striking of them all comes from matching colors with the album artwork. Though it is not up to the par with YouTube music’s Material You themes but Apple Music has finally dropped its default pink hue when a song is playing, matching the primary color from the associated art of the song. When the music is not playing it will go back to its usual appearance. The widgets are getting resized thus making more rooms in exchange for padding around the border of every tool.