It is one of the perhaps most absurd features, but more like we use in all programs that support them. They GIFs, these moving images that, in the original Internet were created because there was no way to see streaming videos, are a phenomenon currently as of the emojis and finally give the jump to WhatsApp for iOS, or at least in beta.
The news comes from the Twitter account @WABetaInfo, where let us news list that brings the version 2.16.7.1 beta of WhatsApp for iOS.
Changelog of #WhatsApp #beta for #iOS 2.16.7.1 is available now! https://t.co/yHrYkvUBOm #GIF #GifSupport #HOTNEWS #whatsappbeta
-WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) June 7, 2016
What’s new in the beta of WhatsApp for iOS
On the link of PasteBin that referenced we can get a little more into changes which brings this beta for the Apple Terminal, that insurance arrives soon to the Android and in it you can read:
As you can read, among the novelties of the beta that we tell from WABetaInfo we can read that it supports GIF but not as images saved in our gallery, but through links that contain a GIF and what will do is to present an image hosted on the internet. For that matter, it comes to be what is used on many keyboards including the possibility of sending GIFs.
On the other hand, if we continue reading, we can find that despite the fact that not can be uploaded GIF documents directly, something that could happen in the future, can be stored in the gallery and in addition, WhatsApp is able to auto – play them without having to click on them.
Finally, WhatsApp can also convert a GIF in a simple image to send it, at least for the moment, and they will have the same encryption as the rest of communications that we have in the property of Facebook messaging service.
Also evidence of video calling
We have to remain vigilant, therefore, to the vein of Google Play to see if soon appears the same functionality for Android, which probably not late to arrive. In addition, it seems that among the novelties, at least at the level of code, they begin to prepare things as a kind of preview for calls – perhaps something like function Knock Knock of Allo – and also the possibility to minimize the display of the video calls.
Certainly the next updates of WhatsApp will be some of the most interesting in the last few weeks and bring us some of the features which most we have been talking about in recent times.
Also you might be interested…
- Twitter launches its own search engine of GIFs in its application for iOS and Android
- How to make an animated GIF with the mobile (video tutorial)
- Applications for creating, editing and sharing GIF animated from the mobile
WhatsApp beta for iOS article already admits GIFs was published in MovilZona.