WhatsApp’s developers suffer from a bit of a delay when it comes to updating their changelogs on the Play Store. Yesterday, they pushed version 2.16.262 (followed by 2.16.263) to the beta channel on the Play Store, but the changelog mentioned features we’ve seen in v2.16.230 like forwarding to multiple contacts and frequent chats, but didn’t say anything about the new feature that was really newly implemented in 2.16.262: image drawing, nor did it say anything about the big emojis we’ve been seeing since 2.16.256. But before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s start with the official changelog.
Beta version 2.16.263 now lets you draw on images and add stickers to it. You can also type text on an image if you want to. There’s a full spectrum of RGB colors as well if you like to write text on images using different colors.
However, you will only be able to add stickers and type text on an image if its captured using WhatsApp’s camera. Besides this, the emojis have got bigger as well. There are four different sizes of emojis. If you send a single emoji, it will be the biggest and size will go on to become smaller till send you send three same emoji. However, if you send four or more same emoji, they will appear in regular size.
WhatsApp seems to have taken care of selfie lovers as well. Whenever you take a photo with front camera using WhatsApp’s camera, your phone’s screen will turn white, making it work as a flash (well, kind of). This would be useful when you are taking a photo in darker environments with the object obviously closer to the phone. As for video capturing, you can zoom in and out by sliding your finger up and down on the screen.
It also seems that WhatsApp stopped blocking Telegram links. There’s information as to when exactly WhatsApp started allowing Telegram links, but yes, it’s happening. However, we would like to remind you that all these features are available in the beta version 2.16.263 of the app and the final version available on the Play Store. Just because they are there in the beta version doesn’t necessarily mean they will make it to the final version as well. However, it’s very unlikely that WhatsApp will do so.
In version 2.16.269 beta of WhatsApp, the ability to draw and add stickers has been added to videos as well. Record a video with WhatsApp's built-in camera (again, this is the one you get from the camera icon in the text box at the bottom of each chat) by holding the capture the button. Then when you're done, WhatsApp will serve the same interface to draw and insert text and stickers on top of the video as it does with images. Anything you add is static though, so keep that in mind if your hand moved a lot while recording.
Sign up for WhatsApp Beta Program from here for a test drive all for free-of-charge.
Beta version 2.16.263 now lets you draw on images and add stickers to it. You can also type text on an image if you want to. There’s a full spectrum of RGB colors as well if you like to write text on images using different colors.
However, you will only be able to add stickers and type text on an image if its captured using WhatsApp’s camera. Besides this, the emojis have got bigger as well. There are four different sizes of emojis. If you send a single emoji, it will be the biggest and size will go on to become smaller till send you send three same emoji. However, if you send four or more same emoji, they will appear in regular size.
WhatsApp seems to have taken care of selfie lovers as well. Whenever you take a photo with front camera using WhatsApp’s camera, your phone’s screen will turn white, making it work as a flash (well, kind of). This would be useful when you are taking a photo in darker environments with the object obviously closer to the phone. As for video capturing, you can zoom in and out by sliding your finger up and down on the screen.
It also seems that WhatsApp stopped blocking Telegram links. There’s information as to when exactly WhatsApp started allowing Telegram links, but yes, it’s happening. However, we would like to remind you that all these features are available in the beta version 2.16.263 of the app and the final version available on the Play Store. Just because they are there in the beta version doesn’t necessarily mean they will make it to the final version as well. However, it’s very unlikely that WhatsApp will do so.
In version 2.16.269 beta of WhatsApp, the ability to draw and add stickers has been added to videos as well. Record a video with WhatsApp's built-in camera (again, this is the one you get from the camera icon in the text box at the bottom of each chat) by holding the capture the button. Then when you're done, WhatsApp will serve the same interface to draw and insert text and stickers on top of the video as it does with images. Anything you add is static though, so keep that in mind if your hand moved a lot while recording.
Sign up for WhatsApp Beta Program from here for a test drive all for free-of-charge.
WhatsApp Beta adds stickers, image drawing, bigger emojis and one-finger video zoom
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Friday, September 16, 2016
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Reviewed by Tech Ugly
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Friday, September 16, 2016
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