WhatsApp brings interesting change for iPhone users

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is rolling out a new interface for action sheets on iOS. The official changelog doesn’t mention the new interface. However, WABetaInfo confirmed that the new action sheets are released to some users that install the latest version of the app. Users who don’t have this new interface should not be concerned as some accounts might get it in the upcoming weeks.

In June, the messaging platform was rolling out a new interface for action sheets to some beta testers on iOS. New action sheets were being added by the platform when muting, deleting, clearing or exporting a conversation. Also, a redesigned action sheet was available when toggling the ability to save media to the photos app or viewing the chat shortcuts.

Earlier this month, the Meta-owned platform was widely rolling out landscape mode support for video calls and silence unknown callers option, on iOS. The platform was also rolling out the ability to natively transfer full account history when switching to a new device. Redesigned sticker tray with improved navigation and a larger set of stickers including more Avatars were also rolling out.

Meanwhile, it was reported that the company was rolling out a feature in the iOS beta, which allows users to send high-quality videos. While this feature preserves video dimensions, minor compression will still be applied to the video, thus sending videos in their original quality is not possible. The default option will always be ‘Standard quality’ for all videos, therefore, users have to select the high-quality option every time they want to send a video with better quality.

Last week, WhatsApp introduced the ability to send quick short video messages directly from the chat screen. A new video icon is now available as an option when you tap the microphone button next to the text field. Long-pressing the icon opens a video recorder in a round overlay on the chat screen. The video can be up to 1-minute long and will appear inside a circle in your chats.

— Written with inputs from IANS