If you receive hundreds or thousands of messages a day, in dozens of groups and with many contacts, WhatsApp makes order for you in the mess: the world's most popular messaging application announces the launch of a "favorites" tag for all users, which will allow you to add the contacts you are in most frequent contact with.
From now on you will notice the "favorites" tag at the top of the app screen. You can access the tag, and by clicking "Add to Favorites" add the contacts with whom you are in continuous and frequent contact.
From now on you will be able to see their messages there, send them a message quickly and also easily read their messages from all the tangle of messages and groups that many of us have fallen into.
Earlier reports updated us that WhatsApp is working on the possibility of sending messages from other applications as well: WhatsApp beta 2 users in Europe can already try the updated messaging software and messages that are also sent from Instagram, Messenger, Signal and SMS. At this point it appears that the application will not allow messages from Telegram, possibly due to security requirements.
The move is part of the EU's Digital Markets Act which came into force this week on Wednesday. Companies like Meta are required by the new regulation to open up their products to competitors.
Accordingly, this week Apple was fined the highest amount imposed on a technology company - 1.84 billion euros, as punishment for preventing its customers from signing up for Spotify and other streaming services outside of its app store, while requiring a 30% commission to be collected from each such request.
The move means you can view messages sent from other apps, even if they don't have them on your phone. The mutual messaging systems must maintain end-to-end encryption.
In this aspect, the other messaging apps from Meta - Instagram and Facebook Messenger, will not be an obstacle and they have probably adapted themselves to WhatsApp's encryption. However, external applications such as Signal (which is admittedly less popular in Israel) and iMessage - the iPhone's SMS software, will also have to adapt the encryption codes to those of WhatsApp.
Meanwhile, last September it was reported that Meta is testing the WhatsApp version for iPads: from the first screenshots that were released to the network, connecting to the iPad version is similar to connecting to WhatsApp on the computer and is done by scanning a QR code. After that, the WhatsApp application syncs directly to the personal account with its size adapted to the screen of the Apple tablet, without the need to log in again. WhatsApp's iPad application is expected to include all the familiar features, including the option of phone or video calls.