“5 Big WhatsApp Changes: Reverse Image Search And Meta AI”

Explore five top WhatsApp updates, including augmented reality, AI for business, document scans reverse image search and Meta AI. Stay alert!

Meta-owned WhatsApp is continuously rolling to update the new features in the coming days, including the AI better performance of AI and augmentative reality features. WhatsApp is a top-list communicative app in South Africa.

Before launching any new feature, always take a test from the small beta group to check its validations and fix its problems. WABetainfo, a site that traces the updated feature of WhatsApp for Android, iOS, and also for web browsers, before releasing it publicly.

Brian Acton and Jan Koum, talented men, who worked at Yahoo, developed WhatsApp in 2009 in Silicon Valley. WhatsApp is commonly used to forward voice messages, text messages, video calls, transfer documents, and share pictures.

In 2025, WhatsApp will become the most widely used communication app, touching 2 million users by February 2020. It has become the main gate to communicate internationally like in America, Europe, India, Africa, and Pakistan due to its success.

WhatsApp began assisting businesses with clients more easily in 2018. In the same year, WhatsApp started to provide the facility for group and video calls. Jan Koum, the CEO of WhatsApp, left this company in 2014 due to disagreements with Facebook about WhatsApp’s running rules.

He didn’t agree with Facebook’s plan to utilize WhatsApp data and compromise its security and privacy(encryption). WhatsApp prioritizes user message privacy to ensure, only the sender and receiver can read the messages. 

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New Features including Reverse Image Search and Meta AI

A 15-year-old WhatsApp service keeps updating the new and latest features, Some new changes are mentioned below:

1-Augmented Reality 

A new WhatsApp update is for iOS users, introducing a new camera feature. Now, users can include specific effects, backgrounds, and various filters to customize their augmented reality.

To use this feature, users can click on a wand icon in their camera view, which gives the choice of different animations, replacing facial expressions, and color for optimization. Touch-up Mode. A new feature to improve and change the appearance of users’s faces.

Low Light Mode. It makes video calls more clearer even in dim light. This feature is only for those users who installed the new WhatsApp update for iOS devices, but, it will be available for more users in the future or a few weeks.

2-AI for business 

Recently, beta testers for iOS noted, that WhatsApp is testing to check AI incorporation for business accounts.It enables the AI-power option to reply to and manage the client’s questions, give product suggestions, and share the details about the price.

 WABetaInfo’s views, it is a gift for outside business hours. Moreover, businesses have conversations at any time,  it is important to inform the client about the use of AI clearness, and their feedback is important to improve the services with time.

Furthermore, WhatsApp initiates a business platform for connecting new features which permits the business to handle the account on dual platforms and also share a chat history of up to 6 months (lifting group chat) to confirm the flow during the new changes.

Note: For detail Knowledge about AI integration for business, check our article on automatic reply on WhatsApp Business app.

3-Reverse Image Search 

For web clients, WhatsApp keeps rolling to bring the latest updates in reverse image search. An advanced feature assists the users in checking whether their images or pictures have been edited or removed to compare with the online sources. It also helps the users make good decisions. With this unique feature, WhatsApp increases users’ privacy and security, fights against wrong content, and shares valid processes honestly.

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In recent WhatsApp update , it was revealed that WhatsApp is going to launch a new feature to add the image in polls. For more detail about this breaking news, check out our article on WhatsApp channels supporting the photos .

4-Meta AI

WhatsApp is also testing a shortcut to reaching the beta in iOS devices. Currently, this shortcut is on the discussion table to make it compatible and easy to use for large devices. It upgrades the human interaction with AI to troubleshoot problems and write unique content.  The shortcut works as an overlay button on Android devices. It might be adjusted in the future according to user feedback. 

According to the latest update of WhatsApp, users can forward their voice and image to describe their to Chatgpt. This feature is for users who use the Meta AI on WhatsApp. To explore the complete details of this news alert, visit our blog on the use of voice and image to prompt AI.

5-Document scans 

 WhatsApp is working to release an exclusive feature for iOS users to scan the document in-app camera. It is adjusted to facilitate those users who are required to scan, share,  and forward the document and the lack of scanning tools. With this addition in WhatsApp, users can scan share, and transfer the document in one app without moving to another third-party tool.

Note: To know the process of scanning visit our article on WhatsApp’s document scanner.