Popular instant messaging app, WhatsApp, has rolled out an update that allows users to share any type of files, documents on its platforms.
The Facebook-owned company, however, limits the shared file size to 100MB. A couple of other features have also been rolled out as well. This includes swiping up from the in-app camera to see photos and videos from gallery, sending multiple pics as album, and easier text formatting.
WhatsApp also, now groups multiple photos as gallery. This means, when you send five or more photos, they will now appear in an album, instead of one below another. The app will display the first five pictures as thumbnail images, with the fifth picture displaying the number of additional photos that have been sent.
Further text-formatting, which includes bold, strikethrough or italicise has been made easier by the messaging app. Now users can simply tap and hold text to select the part they want to format.
Finally, the updates which are available for Android and iOS users also introduced various design improvements for voice and video calls.
WhatsApp is one of the world’s largest messaging apps with over a billion users globally. The platform emerged as the top social platform for sharing news, according to Digital News Report 2017, which conducted the research in 30 countries and five continents.
The app has been steadily adding features to make its platform more useful.
