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WhatsApp is testing a new feature that will let you apply a message timer to existing chats. Messages will automatically disappear from the chat after the pre-defined time is elapsed. Previously, you could only enable disappearing messages for new conversations.WhatsApp introduced disappearing messages for individual chats in November last year. The instant messaging app currently lets you choose from three pre-defined periods — one day, a week, or three months — to automatically wipe out messages. But all this while,…

Today Instagram is out with a new update, and this one lets you buy stuff straight from your chats. This works for purchases from "qualified small businesses", which will confirm your orders, create payment requests, and collect payment all within the chat interface. Everything thus stays in the same place - your questions, the business' answers, any other communication you've exchanged with them, along with your orders, shipping and tracking info. Instagram parent company Meta says one billion people message a…

Instagram is getting a payment feature that will allow users to buy from small businesses through direct messages, parent company Meta Platforms said on Monday.According to the blog post, users will be able to make purchases with a qualified small business on Instagram without leaving the chat. Earlier, users had to exit the post, and send a message to the business to the chats to enquire about a product for purchasing. Now, users can directly chat about customizations and place order right in the chat.Moreover, it will…

WhatsApp has started testing a new 'View Once' feature on Windows to let users have the ability to access photos and videos that are meant to be viewed once on the app. It was spotted on a beta release of WhatsApp's Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app that is currently meant for testing purposes. WhatsApp has also separately started testing a new pop-up menu for phone numbers you get in a message to let you choose between dialling the number or adding it to contacts by tapping on it in the chat.As spotted by WhatsApp…

Up until now, WhatsApp only allowed its users to set a common custom wallpaper for all it chats, this changes now. With a new software update, you can now set a custom wallpaper for each of your chats individually. That's not all, the Facebook-owned messaging platform has also introduced a bunch of new bright and dark wallpapers. In this article, we tell you how to set a custom wallpaper for a specific chat on WhatsApp.WhatsApp: Set a custom wallpaper on iPhoneBefore you go ahead, make sure that you have updated to the…

WhatsApp allows you to easily change your phone number without losing your chats, and we're going to explain how to do that. The instant messaging platform is one of the most actively used apps for most smartphone users. A lot of people use it for sending messages and making voice and video calls. These features make WhatsApp a go-to solution for smartphone users. But since WhatsApp works with your phone number, you need to update your WhatsApp account when you change your existing number. And it's perfectly possible for…

A recent study found out that when people look at themselves while doing a virtual chat with their partner, their mood degrades more over the course of the conversation. Researchers discovered that the use of alcohol appears to worsen the issue more.The findings point out a potentially problematic role of online meeting platforms in exacerbating psychological problems like anxiety and depression, the researchers said."We used eye-tracking technology to examine the relationship between mood, alcohol and attentional focus…

WhatsApp is found to be making it easier for businesses to create new orders for customers available on the platform. The new experience would let business users add items that they are selling to a customer in the chat screen. WhatsApp is said to be currently testing the feature internally, though some of its references were spotted in a recent beta release for Android users. The instant messaging app has been working actively to enhance its shopping experience for some time.As reported by WhatsApp features tracker…

Riot Games will begin monitoring “North American/English-only” voice communications in Valorant beginning July 13 as it expands its effort to reduce toxicity and player harassment in the popular first-person shooter. Riot laid the foundation for this move back in April 2021 when it made an update to its privacy policy with new terms that would allow it to “record and potentially evaluate voice data when using Riot-owned voice comms channels.” However, for now, the company says that it won’t be using these voice…

Riot Games, the developer behind the free first-person shooter (FPS) Valorant, will start monitoring players’ voice communications on July 13th (via PCGamer). The game company says it’s to help train the language models that it will eventually use when evaluating player reports across all its games. Riot initially announced this change in April 2021 after making an update to its privacy policy. The new terms give Riot permission to “record and potentially evaluate voice data when using Riot-owned voice comms channels”…