WhatsApp has recently been taking a lot of steps to curb the spread of malicious fake news on its platform the most noticeable of them being the full page advertisements it published in all the leading newspapers in India as written about here





If you are like the millions of people who use WhatsApp as the main source of communication then you must know about these six new features that WhatsApp is either testing or has already made available:





WhatsApp forwarded label

This feature that is now available to users on Android and iOS, places a "Forwarded" label on texts that have been forwarded. This lets those who receive the message understand that it was not originally composed by the sender. It must be noted however that copied and pasted text or media that has been downloaded and re-attached does not get this label.

"Mute" and "Mark as read" options in the Notification Panel

Now users will reportedly have the ability to mute chats directly from the notifications centre but only when more than 50 messages have been received from the contact. Users will also be able to mark messages as read from the notification centre itself, where currently only the reply option is present. The mute feature is available in Android beta version 2.18.216.

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Stickers The ability to send cute and fun stickers, as present in many other messaging platforms, has been a feature craved by WhatsApp users since the beginning. In Facebook's F8 conference this feature was at last announced and its preview is currently available for Android beta Version 2.18.218.

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Suspicious links detection This feature currently being tested will detect the redirection of a link to a different website and mark it with a red label. Additionally it will give a warning when the user decides to click on the link despite the red label.

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Message sending discriminatory powers for Group Admins

We have all been part of a WhatsApp group at some point of time that is constantly bombarded by spam messages which are well meaning or otherwise. Admins will now have the power to choose who in a group have the rights to post messages to the group. This option is currently available in the group settings menu

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Media Visibility

Users will get the option to hide media received via WhatsApp from the phone's gallery. The media that is hidden will only show up within the App.

What do you think of these new features and what are the features that you would like to see on WhatsApp? Do comment below and don't forget to subscribe.