Gone are the days when WhatsApp did not change. Zuckerberg stepped up and throughout August something similar to what happened in July happened: Many news came to WhatsApp.

Below we tell you 7 news from WhatsApp that reach everyone Greatly improved the experience in this app during the month of August.

HD quality photos and videos

You take a great photo, you share it with your friends on WhatsApp and you can hardly see the details. WhatsApp always The images we send are pretty compressedhowever, its dimensions have been reduced so much that it is impossible to zoom in unless we want to see large pixels.

There was no solution for this issue other than the trick of sending photos or videos as documents, but now we have an intermediate option: send them in HD quality. When you choose this, pressing the HD button before sending the said photo or video will send it in higher resolution and quality. It also takes up more space and uses more data if you don’t have Wi-Fi, but looks better.

Screen sharing in video calls

It’s a well-known secret that WhatsApp wants to compete with Zoom as more than just an app to chat and talk to your friends. The latest innovation makes WhatsApp a great alternative for video conferencing: ability to share screen during call.

Sharing the screen during a video call has been in testing for a while, but was enabled for everyone in August. both on WhatsApp for Android As in the Windows version.

Animated stickers of our avatar

WhatsApp has animated stickers and avatars, but what it lacked was a combination of both. Unity of both animated stickers based on our avatarSimilar to those created by Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram.

Animated stickers of our avatar shown mixed with static ones In the avatar tab in the emoji picker, we offer you another tool to express yourself in your chats.

Autoname for groups

A little innovation came to our groups in August: Automatic names. Yes when you create a group you don’t name itOne is assigned according to who is inside.

So when you create a group consisting of Pepito, Fulanito and Josefina, the name will be referred to as ‘Pepito, Fulanito and Josefina’. Each person sees the group with: names of people they registeredthey don’t have to be the same.

Protection for WhatsApp Web

Access to WhatsApp Web was free, although we had the option to fingerprint our chats when we used WhatsApp on mobile devices. If someone has access to the same computer, they can open the tab and read all your chats.

The beta version of WhatsApp Web now finally allows us to: protect our chats with a passwordSo even if someone carelessly goes backwards, if 1 minute, 15 minutes or 1 hour has passed, they can’t see anything.

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