This is how users react to the new WhatsApp update

2024-03-21 02:03:20

For months, the WhatsApp messaging application has been working on its recent updates, which offer a series of new tools to improve the user experience in the mobile service.

In recent days, WhatsApp has launched an update that is generating a stir among its more than 2.5 billion users. The most notable change is the adjustment to the design of the main interface. This update brings with it a series of significant improvements that promise to make the user experience more fluid and secure.

WhatsApp beta version 2.24.6.5 has brought with it a series of changes that seek to improve the privacy and functionality of the application in Colombia, this version is available on iOs and Android devices.

One of the most notable changes is the protection of the profile photo. Now it will not be possible to take a screenshot of other users’ images. The objective, according to the platform, is to give a higher level of privacy to user profiles.

The update also brings four new text formats, including numbered and unnumbered lists, code blocks and in-text quotes, which will allow users to personalize their messages more creatively.

The messaging application also spoke on the Meta blog about a series of changes that users in some parts of the world will have to accept, which have to do with privacy and sending messages to other platforms.

In this way, the only countries that will suffer from this update, which will come into effect from April 11 of the current year.

Faced with the obvious change in the interface, social network users have reacted in the following way: “Each WhatsApp update becomes worse”, “The new WhatsApp update was already used to the other, now I forget that everything is down and not up, how horrible”, “I’m hating the new WhatsApp update”, “Because no one is talking about how horrible the WhatsApp update looks”, among others.

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