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The newest version of WhatsApp on Android is now available via the Play Store and introduces some very competitive new features.

The version in question is 2.23.3.77, which has an update date of February 13th, and lists the below new features:Added support for longer group subjects and descriptions to better describe your groupYou can now create personalized avatars and use them as stickers and profile photos. Go to Settings > Avatar to get started.

The most prominent and useful one of all the aforementioned features, at least to me, happens to be the increase in the number of photos and videos that can be sent all at once within a conversation. Going from 30 to 100 is quite the leap and hopefully enough for even the most active photographers. However, there is one rumored upcoming feature that has not yet made it out of beta: Disappearing Messages. The ephemeral message feature, made popular initially by Snapchat, is currently only available in the beta version of the app. Additionally, the beta version also includes a"Kept Messages" folder, which is meant to store the disappearing messages you prefer to keep indefinitely. Sadly, the beta version of WhatsApp for Android is currently full and not accepting new registrations.

by urging his Twitter followers not to use that app, going as far as to label it as"Russian spyware." So far, this battle has been beneficial for WhatsApp users in that it has sparked some innovation and new features to be launched. It will be interesting to see how far this goes and how much we as users can get out of it.

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