WhatsApp wants to be the app for everything, too, for you to follow the news on any emerging topic. With a new communication tool where the application has just become official, you will soon be able to: channels.

Channels come to WhatsApp with a similar premise to Telegram or Messenger channels, as a one-way mode of communication where administrators and casual users share posts. follow the channel to know everything posted thereIt has a chat-like design.

WhatsApp wants to be your news app

After filtering for a few months already, first under the name of newsletters, WhatsApp made its channels officialhowever, it will take some time before we get our hands on them as deployment has begun in Colombia and Singapore.

When we have them, the channels will live A new tab called Newswill replace the previous States tab. The states will still be there, but will now be minimized to a horizontal bar at the top instead of a list.

Status tab changes to news tab

Which channels anyone can create directly from WhatsApp, they can be public or private and keep one month’s message history. In the future, administrators will also be able to choose whether to allow users to forward messages or take screenshots.

channels not end-to-end encrypted, one of the few exceptions within WhatsApp. Regarding privacy, an important fact is that the creator’s phone number is not visible to the followers, and the followers’ numbers are not visible to each other or to the creator.

Visually, channels are similar to groups where only admins can post, but with minor changes to make posts more visual. In channels you can share texts, photos, videos, stickers and polls.

Once available on our mobile, we can find channels that we can follow directly from the search engine tab. channel index. In this tab we will see the channels we follow and a preview of their latest broadcasts.

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