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Five changes WhatsApp is preparing for next year

It gives us the impression that WhatsApp has remained unchanged for years, but the truth is that little by little it is incorporating new features at its own pace. WaBetaInfo overtakes us five changes that WhatsApp is preparing and possibly we will see throughout the next year.

WaBetaInfo has advanced us five WhatsApp changes that are in development and therefore we should see soon, from more animated emojis to greater flexibility when sending photos or communities.

Animated hearts

The oldest ones will know this trick from before the stickers arrived on WhatsApp: if you send a message with a heart emoji, it is shown big and lively. It has been like this since 2014 and only worked with the standard heart emoji, in red.

The novelty is that the animation of the giant heart emoji will be present in all the emojis of hearts, for all available colors. Otherwise, it is exactly the same: it will be displayed when you send a message that only includes the emoji.

Edit the recipient of a photo

Filters

Before sending a photo or posting a status on WhatsApp, a small text is displayed indicating who will be able to see it or to whom you are sending it. The application is now designing a new layout for the screen that appears before sending a photo in which you can edit recipients.

That is, when you take a photo with the WhatsApp camera or select it from the mobile gallery, you can choose if you want it send to that chat, post as status or send to other people. According to WaBetaInfo, the function is still a bit green, so we could see changes and nuances in the future.

New design for profiles

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WaBetaInfo also tells us that WhatsApp will modify the appearance of the profiles of WhatsApp contacts, including the design of the business profiles. The redesign includes a new button to search in the chat, which did not exist before, and which apparently will not be present in WhatsApp for Android.

We had already seen this redesign before for android -and, in fact, it is already active for some users of the beta- but it will also come to iOS, with a very similar aspect to the one that contacts have in this operating system.

Search for nearby businesses

Look for

For a few months, WhatsApp has been testing its own version of the Yellow Pages in Brazil. It is a list of nearby businesses with WhatsApp account, to start a conversation easily and without having to add the contact first.

A related feature WhatsApp is developing is a business search engine, with filters included to be able to find restaurants, supermarkets and other categories. According to WaBetaInfo, it will be included in the WhatsApp search engine, in its own section called Nearby businesses.

Create communities

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Communities are one of the most mysterious WhatsApp news to come. We know they will be something like groups of groups, in a similar way to how some Internet forums have subforums with different categories.

We now have a few more details about it, plus a screenshot of what the creating a community on iOS. Each community can have up to ten groups within it, with a special group of announcements in which only administrators can write. Also, when a user leaves a community, they will no longer see the groups that it includes.

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