WhatsApp adds end-to-end encryption on all its platforms

April 5, 2016: Things have been warming up in the tech security world, so the opportunity has already come and gone to bounce into the encryption pool. Taking after nearly in the strides of Apple's contention with the FBI over a bolted iPhone having a place with one of the San Bernardino shooters and a completely joined front from the tech world on the issue, WhatsApp has now extended its end-to-end encryption over every one of its stages, covering all types of communication – voice calls, recordings and visits including various individuals.

This move from WhatsApp brings about greatly solid assurance for its users. Also, that is end-to-end encryption for more than one billion individuals. how about we not overlook. WhatsApp will no more permit decoded messages to be sent.

End-to-end encryption implies that any information exchanged can be perused just be the sender and the beneficiary. In the space between them, the information is vigorously scrambled. Indeed, even WhatsApp workers couldn't disentangle the data in the event that they wished to.

A few information does, nonetheless, remain decoded. The date and time stamp of messages, and phone numbers, may in any case be assembled.

WhatsApp beta tests text formatting include bold and italics :

March 11, 2016: The most recent beta form of WhatsApp has acquainted strong and italics with the content organizing choices. By using asterisks on either side of a word or phrase you can bold it and underscores can be used to add italics.

WhatsApp has extended the organizing to the notice shade bar where you will see senders' names appear in intense and any designing that has been utilized as a part of the message will be shown.

This is presently just in the beta form of the application, yet a full rollout appears to be likely. In any case, in the event that you need to get this component now, alongside future beta forms of the application, then you can join to wind up a WhatsApp beta analyzer here.

WhatsApp gives the Settings screen a makeover :

March 8, 2016: WhatsApp has given its Settings menu a shakeup in this upgrade. Has it been changed stylishly, as well as some little natural changes, as well. For instance, Account has been moved to the highest priority on the rundown and Data Usage has gotten its own particular top-level choice. The Payment data choice has now, given the evacuation of a membership expense, been dropped totally from the menu. Likewise, on the Profile page, your photo will now show up around, where regularly it was a square.

WhatsApp adds link copying, document sharing and granular chat clearing options:

March 2, 2016: Throughout a spate of minor updates, WhatsApp has seen several new features added.

Firstly, there is presently the choice to long push on a connection to duplicate it. Already, this was an aggravation, as you needed to duplicate the whole message inside of which the connection was contained and afterward glue that and alter it down to the connection. Presently an essentially long squeeze gives you a chance to duplicate only the URL, as you would ordinarily do in each other application ever.

On the media page for a discussion, another tab has additionally been included that contains a past filled with every one of the reports that have been partaken in a discussion or gathering visit.

WhatsApp finishes redesign with new emoji, Google Drive reinforcements and more :

February 17, 2016: Albeit just about of these elements have been seen eventually on an enormous number of gadgets, it appears WhatsApp has now concluded the expansion of more than 100 new emoji (as nitty gritty beneath), Google Drive visit log reinforcements (as likewise point by point underneath), Marshmallow authorizations (remarkably, that WhatsApp will now request that when it needs utilize your receiver, as opposed to having consent to utilize it at all times), and backing for Kazakh, Tagalog, Uzbek, Marathi and Malayalam dialects.

WhatsApp drops subscription fee :

January 18, 2016: WhatsApp reported, by means of its blog, that it is beginning to expel expenses from all forms of the application and will never again be charging any cash for utilization of the administration. The change may take a couple of weeks to become effective for a few clients, and on the off chance that you are charged meanwhile, there is nothing for it except for to pay.

In answer to hypothetical inquiries in regards to the insertion of outsider promotions to compensate for the loss of pay, WhatsApp says it doesn't plan to present such a measure. Rather, the organization has plans to permit organizations to pay to utilize the support of contact clients specifically, if clients agree to being reached. WhatsApp gives the sample of having the capacity to contact an aircraft with respect to a postponed flight.

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WhatsApp tips and tricks: 10 ways to master messaging

1. Stop WhatsApp images appearing in your camera roll

If your friends send you loads of stupid pictures on WhatsApp, and you don’t want them mixed in with all your amazing photos, it is possible to keep WhatsApp images separate so they don’t appear in your camera roll.

• Download a file explorer, such as ES File Explorer
• Navigate to sdcard/WhatsApp/Media
• Enter the folder you don’t want shared (in this case, WhatsApp Images)
• Tap the plus button at the bottom of the screen
• Name the new folder .nomedia

2. Lock WhatsApp

If you’re keen to keep your WhatsApp private, you can use any number of security apps to set a passcode for the app. AppLock is a popular choice.

3. Switch your WhatsApp chat history between phones

If you haven’t received the update that allows Google Drive backups yet, and you need to move your WhatsApp history over to a new device, it’s a pretty painless procedure. All you need is a microSD card and a few minutes to spare.

• Insert the microSD card into the device that has WhatsApp on it
• In WhatsApp, go to Settings > Chats and calls > Back up chats
• Remove the SD card and place it into your other device
• Install WhatsApp on the other device
• WhatsApp should detect the backup and prompt you to restore it, which you should do

4. Get desktop notifications for WhatsApp chats

You’ll need the WhatsApp Web Chrome extension to get WhatsApp desktop notifications. Then, all you need to do is install a simple add-on called WAToolkit.

After installing it, you will see a new icon in your browser toolbar. Hover your cursor over it to see the most recently received message, or right click for more options. You’ll also notice the WAToolkit options button in your WhatsApp Web tab. The best part? WAToolkit will notify you of messages on your desktop even when Chrome itself isn’t running.

• Install WhatsApp Web on PC
• In the WhatsApp Web browser window, go to Options > Notifications and ensure that
• Desktop Alerts is ticked
• Install the Chrome browser extension WAToolkit
• Make sure the background notifications box is ticked, like in the image below

5. Send private messages in bulk, BCC-style

Privacy on the internet is a hard thing to hold onto, but even the famously unprivate WhatsApp has a few features that let you do things on the down-low.

Want to send out a group message without everyone in the group seeing who else received that message, and then seeing every subsequent response to the message? That’s what the Broadcast feature is for, and using it is simple:

• Tap the Options icon at the top right (three dots)
• Tap New broadcast
• Enter the names of all the contacts you want to send your private message to
• Tap Create, write your message, then send it

6. Hide ‘Last seen’, profile photo and status

Getting thrown into a big group chat filled with party guests and people you don’t know can be bewildering. Suddenly, your profile picture is staring back at a chatroom full of strangers, who can also see your status and when you’re reading messages. If I wanted a whole flock of strangers ogling and judging a photo of me, I’d have gone on Tinder.

Here’s how to have better control over who sees this information on WhatsApp:

• Tap the Options icon at the top right of WhatsApp
• Go to Settings > Account > Privacy
• Go through the Last seen, Profile photo, and Status options, then set their visibility to ‘Everyone’, ‘My contacts’ or ‘Nobody’, depending on how much privacy you want

7. Mute annoying WhatsApp group chats

We’ve all been in that position where we’ve somehow been dragged into a group chat that we either didn’t really want to be in in the first place or just don’t want to receive notifications from every couple of minutes.

Rather than just leave the chat, which may offend some people, you can simply mute the chat so you stop receiving notifications from it.

• In WhatsApp, tap the Chats tab
• Tap the group you want to mute
• With the group open, tap the Options icon at the top right
• Tap Mute, then select the amount of time you want to mute the group for. You can also untick the Show notifications box so that you never hear from the group again until you decide otherwise

8. Create a homescreen shortcut for your favorite chats

Do you have certain friends with whom you have constant stream-of-consciousness conversations, where you’re non-stop WhatsApp’ing all day, every day?

If so, then you can create a shortcut icon to those conversations, which will appear on your Android homescreen. This means you can jump straight into chats with your BFFs and important groups.

• In WhatsApp, tap the Chats tab.
• Tap and hold the conversation you want to create a shortcut for.
• When the list of options appears, tap Add conversation shortcut
• A shortcut displaying your contact’s profile picture will now appear on your homescreen. Tap it to jump straight in and start chatting to them.

9. Recover deleted messages

By default, WhatsApp backs up your messages every day at 4am. This means that if you’ve deleted any messages since then, but before the next auto-backup, you can recover them. To do this:

• Uninstall WhatsApp from your device (Settings > Apps > WhatsApp > Uninstall)
  Reinstall WhatsApp.
• Type your phone number into WhatsApp, then it should notify you that it’s found a backup of your chats
• Tap Restore to get your deleted messages back
• If you want to know how to recover other deleted messages on your phone, hit the link.

10. How to change your WhatsApp background

This simple little trick allows you to change the default wallpaper in WhatsApp. It’s purely an aesthetic feature, but it does make your conversations look a lot nicer.

• In WhatsApp, tap the options (three dots) button and tap Settings
• Tap Chats and calls
• Tap Wallpaper
• Tap WhatsApp, to download the WhatsApp wallpaper pack, or Documents, to view your own images.
• Select an image and tap Set Wallpaper

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WhatsApp voice calling feature: here’s how to get it enabled

WhatsApp has finally integrated voice call functionality into the world’s most popular instant messaging app. The WhatsApp call feature has finally been made available to anyone with the very latest version of the app. Be warned though that there is a new WhatsApp voice calling scam going around. Here's how to safely get WhatsApp voice calls on your phone.

How to enable Whats App voice calls

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The ability to activate voice calls on WhatsApp finally seems to be here for keeps. To get it, you need to update your WhatsApp app to at least v2.11.561. The official WhatsApp website now has v2.12.7 (versions before v2.11.561 failed to enable WhatsApp voice calls for us reliably, whereas v2.11.561 has worked first try on several devices, as has v2.12.7).

You’ll need to enable Unknown Sources in your Security settings first and get a call from someone you know that already has the WhatsApp voice calling feature enabled. You'll then see three tabs at the top of your WhatsApp interface: calls, chats and contacts.

The calls tab will show you a detailed call log and in any chat with a WhatsApp contact you'll find that the dialer icon at the top now makes calls direct via WhatsApp and not the regular dialer. We've tested the latest version with several phones and they all worked first try, so it looks like the wait is finally over and WhatsApp voice calls are here for everyone. Still, there's no need to wait for the right version to hit the Play Store is there?

How to enable Whats App voice calls (with root)

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How to install WhatsApp on your PC

WhatsApp is the bread and butter of instant messaging nowadays. It's backed by Facebook and hundreds of millions of users. But how do I get it on PC? Read on for two tutorials on how to install WhatsApp on your PC.

How to install WhatsApp using the official Chrome web-client

This is the easiest solution, as WhatsApp has developed an official web-client for this purpose.

Go to web.whatsapp.com on your PC and scan the QR code with your phone (using QR code reader or a similar app), then follow the installation instructions. This provides you with all of the regular WhatsApp functionality, like voice and picture messaging, but there is a caveat. The WhatsApp web-client acts as a "mirror" for your device, meaning you will only receive messages on WhatsApp web if you receive it on your phone also. Your device has to be switched on, and connected to the internet, to use the web-client.

The above method will work for anybody running a Windows machine, with WhatsApp on their smartphone, and using Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Chrome. If, for whatever reason, the above solution doesn't do it for you, there is another way to get WhatsApp on PC. We would strongly advise the above method first though.

How to install WhatsApp using BlueStacks

This process takes about ten minutes and involves installing an Android emulator known as BlueStacks. This program will replicate you Android smartphone on your computer and it can be installed from Google Play.

IMPORTANT:

When you activate WhatsApp on your computer using this method, the account on your smartphone will be deactivated, as it only allows one account per device.

BlueStacks is an English-only application, so if you are using a different language, make sure that you do not use characters/letters which aren’t found in the English alphabet.

1. Download and install BlueStacks.

2. When you open the program you will see a search icon in the top left hand side which you will use to search for WhatsApp (or just click the WhatsApp icon if it is there when it loads).

3. In order to search for the application, BlueStacks requires two configuration steps. For this reason, it will open a window called One Time Setup. Follow the instructions until you see the message.

4. After you are finished this process, Google Play will automatically open. Now you’ll need to insert the information from your account.

5. Once you are in Google Play, it’s the same old steps: search and install WhatsApp.

6. Finally you simply need to set up your account in the application and indicate your phone number and country, after which you will receive a verification code of
   6 digits on your phone. This code then needs to be entered into the verification box.  

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