For what reason are Kashmiris vanishing from WhatsApp in the midst of web shutdown?

Local people who vanished from the stage have for some time been dynamic members in Whatsapp bunches sharing news and updates. Nobody was very certain about what was going on

It’s been actually four months since internet providers were snapped in Kashmir. Indeed, even as Kashmiris keep on persevering through the shutdown, on Wednesday, they started disappearing in huge numbers from the online life stage WhatsApp, Buzzfeed detailed.

Local people who vanished from the stage have for quite some time been dynamic members in Whatsapp bunches sharing news and updates. Nobody was very certain about what was occurring.

“I felt that internet providers had been reestablished in Kashmir and possibly these individuals were simply expelling themselves from WhatsApp bunches without anyone else,” Mudasir Firdosi, a London-based Kashmiri specialist who is in about six WhatsApp bunches told Buzzfeed.

A Facebook representative revealed to Buzzfeed that the vanishings were the aftereffect of WhatsApp’s strategy on inert records. “To keep up security and point of confinement information maintenance, WhatsApp accounts for the most part terminate following 120 days of dormancy,” he said. “At the point when that occurs, those records naturally leave their WhatsApp gatherings. Individuals should be re-added to bunches after recovering access to the Internet and joining WhatsApp once more.”

Suhail Lyser, a Kashmiri understudy from Dehradun, revealed to BuzzFeed News that he saw in excess of 150 Kashmiris in a WhatsApp bunch abruptly vanish from the gathering. Yet, as per another Kashmiri specialist who lives in New Delhi, individuals utilizing WhatsApp because of their movements outside the state found their records unblemished…

Why type when you can now dictate WhatsApp messages through voice command

WhatsApp Dictation feature will let Android and iPhone users dictate any message through its voice command feature

Current Affairs: Do you feel too lazy to type lengthy WhatsApp messages? If yes, you are in luck. The messaging platform has introduced a voice feature — WhatsApp Dictation — that allows users to dictate any text that they would have otherwise had to type, according to News18.

While this feature already existed on virtual assistants like Apple’s Siri or Google Assistant, what’s new is that WhatsApp will introduce a new mic icon on the keyboard for easy accessibility.Here’s how to use the new WhatsApp Dictation feature:

1. Open the chat window of the person you want to send the message

2. On your virtual keyboard, you will see a mic icon.

3. Once you tap on the mic icon, it will start recording whatever you speak.

4. The dictated message will appear on your keyboard

5. You can edit the same before sending the final message.

Source By Business Standard 

In middle of a WhatsApp voice call? You can switch to video call instantly

WhatsApp calls are only available in one-on-one conversations but might be available to group chats soon

WhatsApp has launched a feature in its beta version that will let users switch to video calls from voice calls at the touch of a button.

According to a report in the Independent, if you are in the middle of a WhatsApp voice call and want to switch to a video call, you just need to tap that button to make the switch.

Tapping the button will send a request to the person on the other side, asking if he or she wants to switch from voice to video.

If the offer is accepted, the call will be switched.

If the offer is declined, the voice call will continue as normal. In the current version of WhatsApp, you need to end a voice call to make a video call.

WhatsApp calls are currently only available in one-on-one conversations but it might be available to group chats in the near future, the report said.

The new feature was spotted by watcher of the popular chat app WABetaInfo, which said that the feature is only available to those who have signed up to the beta version of WhatsApp....Read more