WhatsApp introduces profile photos in notifications

The popular instant messaging app owned by Meta, WhatsApp, is releasing the first update of the year: at the moment, however, it is only available on iOS. Let’s find out all the details together.

The new WhatsApp update is available on iOS

As reported by WaBetaInfo, for now, the new feature introduced by WhatsApp is accessible only to iOS beta testers. As soon as the company fixes all the bugs, the feature will be released on all smartphones. The new features play one smart function which allows the user to see profile photo of the sender in the system notifications.

The WhatsApp development tracker, WaBetaInfo, has posted the information and a screenshot on its official blog. WhatsApp will enable the feature on each account in the near future. Since this new feature is being tested for now, so the instant messaging app might encounter some errors while showing profile pictures in a specific notification, so don’t worry if you can’t access the feature. You will certainly get it soon with an improved system configuration.

This is just the beginning for WhatsApp. Meta’s proprietary messaging app will likely offer its users more interesting features to give them a memorable experience: give them reactions to messages up to transcription of voice memos.

All these features will make it aconvenient application for both users and companies. To conclude, among the upcoming news, it was revealed that WhatsApp beta will also have advertising within the app, considering the transition from Facebook to Meta. The main idea of ​​this function is that of monetize through WhatsApp. However, it may not be the best feature for WhatsApp, as users don’t like awkward and abrupt advertising.

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