Rumor Tips Message Recall for WhatsApp

Facebook-owned WhatsApp this week updated its iPhone app with new filters for your media, automatic photo and video albums, and a way to answer to messages even quicker.

One highly requested feature, however—the ability to undo sent letters—has non even so made it into the app, though reports suggest it's in the works.

On Twitter this week, WABetaInfo said information technology institute prove in WhatsApp'due south code that the and then-called "Recollect" feature will "exist remotely enabled" in an upcoming update.

WhatsApp did not immediately respond to PCMag's asking for annotate.

Every bit for what's actually coming to WhatsApp, version 2.17.thirty includes new color filters to help you jazz up your photos, videos, and GIFs right inside the WhatsApp camera. Just capture an image or video (or select something saved in your telephone) and swipe upwardly to choice a filter. There are currently five options to choose from: pop, black and white, absurd, chrome, and film.

The app will likewise now automatically create albums for you, a characteristic that should come in handy the adjacent time your bestie who'southward backpacking around Europe checks in. Now, when you send or receive four or more photos or videos, the app will automatically group them together as an album that shows up in a tile brandish inside your messages. When you tap on the album, you'll run across the collection of photos and videos in full screen.

Finally, the new reply shortcut feature aims to salve you some time. You lot tin at present but swipe correct on whatsoever message to showtime typing your response.

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Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart home products. Instruction yoga for almost 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected wellness products including fettle trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart domicile devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, simply to name a few.