WhatsApp May Soon Get 'Like' and 'Mark as Unread' Features In The Upcoming Update.

WhatsApp might soon get its own 'Like' button similar to Facebook alongside a 'mark as unread' feature for chats, hints some new reports on the Internet.

A WhatsApp beta tester named Ilhan Pektas recently tweeted (via AndroidPit) about the 'Like' button feature coming to WhatsApp. The tweet in German said (translated), "Like Button for divided images in WhatsApp."

While the tweet indicated that the 'Like' feature might be used for images, it is still not clear how the feature will be implemented in general conversation.

The 'mark as unread' feature was spotted by ADSLZone which obtained some WhatsApp documents that hinted the functionality was still in testing. The documents spotted included two forms for Mark as Read and Mark as Unread.

It will be interesting to see how the 'mark as unread' feature will be integrated into the WhatsApp conversation considering that the Read Receipts feature already exists which will notify the sender once the receiver reads the messages.

If this comes out to be true, the Facebook's 'Like' button, which is a highlight feature of the social platform, will be a brand new addition to the most widely used instant messaging service worldwide while the 'mark as unread' feature would also come handy similarly as seen in mail services.

To recall, WhatsApp already became the most widely used instant messaging app and back in April crossed 800 million monthly active users.

WhatsApp Ranked Worst at Protecting Your Privacy and Data

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released its annual report card of tech companies for 2015 based upon how much they keep your personal data secure from government snoops.

And the Worst Companies Award goes to…

1. At&T
2. WhatsApp
3. Verizon

Yes, you heard right! WhatsApp is one of the three worst companies at protecting its users’ data so if you are concerned about your data privacy, you should think twice before using WhatsApp.

The EFF released its latest Who Has Your Back report based on 5 basic criteria that included:

• Follows Industry Accepted Best Practices
• Tells Users About Government Data Demands
• Discloses Policies on Data Retention
• Discloses Government Content Removal Requests
• Pro-user Public Policy: opposes backdoors

The prominent privacy advocacy group analysed 24 companies in total, and among them AT&T, Verizon and WhatsApp came out to be the worst companies at protecting its users’ data.

Where Verizon met two criteria of the EFF's criteria, WhatsApp and AT&T only met one.

AT&T, WhatsApp and Verizon have some worst policies when it comes to protecting its users’ personal data from government requests.

Here’s some advice from the EFF to WhatsApp: "WhatsApp should publicly require a warrant before turning over user content, publish a law enforcement guide and transparency report, have a stronger policy of informing users of government requests, and disclose its data retention policies.

Also, Google and Microsoft both earned just three stars each, which isn’t really up to the mark for such two companies that claim definite levels of respect and trust when it comes to data privacy.

However, the EFF report also says that Microsoft has made improvement in company practices and will be in a position to raise a fourth star in September.

Companies that earned the full five out of five stars on the EFF’s privacy scoreboard are Adobe, Apple, Yahoo, Dropbox, Wordpress, Wickr, Credo Mobile, Sonic and Wikimedia.

You can see the results of every single company in the EFF's chart above, and if you want the more detailed explanation, you can access the full detailed EFF report here.

Source www.TheHackerNews.com

WhatsApp Money To Your Friends Now

What if you run out of cash and need a fast and easy way to ask your friends for money? Here’s a good news for you. After the announcement of Facebook’s free money transfer feature via Messenger, now the social networking company has decided to bring a similar functionality to its instant messaging service WhatsApp.

Axis Bank, India’s third-largest private bank, has decided to bring the easiness of instant money transfer to your friends via applications like Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, or via email or SMS.

This is becoming possible with the help of Ping Pay service from the bank and is challenging its rivals HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank. Rajiv Anand, group executive, retail banking at Axis Bank said:

“This is the only application on which you can send and ask for money. The transfer of funds is instant while in other platforms there is a waiting period of 30 minutes to one day.”

This friend-to-friend money transfer takes place via the Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) of NPCI and currently Indian users can send up to Rs. 50,000 per day to their friends using this service.

How this Ping Pay service works for WhatsApp?

For sending the money, you will enter the amount and set a secret code which you will share with the receiver. Now after you will hit the “Send” button, the money will be transferred and instantly received by the receiver on WhatsApp or other platforms along with a message.

The receiver should transfer the money to his/her bank within 15 days and failing to do so, the money will be transferred back to you.

The companies these days are focusing on smartphones more than ever and this focus is well justified given the fact that to be competitive, the mobile businesses must be prioritized.

Are you going to try out this feature? Tell us in comments below!

Use WhatsApp Without Registering Your Number

Everybody knows how whatsapp works! Registering your mobile number is the first step.In this post, I’ll tell you how can you use WhatsApp without using your mobile number, i.e. WhatsApp without using any number. Friends, you might be knowing that Facebook has launched web version of the WhatsApp currently for the chrome browser

which is becoming very popular day by day.

For messaging anyone without using any number, do the following steps:

     STEPS

• Uninstall WhatsApp from your Android phone.
• Download and install WhatsApp again.
• Block all messaging services on your phone. Keeping your phone to flight mode will automatically block all messaging services.
• Now open WhatsApp and Enter your number. In such case WhatsApp will accept numbers, but will not be able to send any verification message.
• WhatsApp verification is not yet done, so users will not be able to use it.
• Now WhatsApp wil ask you for alternate method of verification. Click on ‘Verify through SMS‘ option and provide your email address.
  Press Send button and within 2 second, press Cancel button. This will stop the authorization process.
• Now another app Spoof Text Message will be needed to spoof the message.
• This app will ask for some details. Use below details :
  • To: +447900347295
  • From: + (country code) ( mobile number)
  • Message: Your e-mail address

Now, your message will be sent from a spoof number and you can chat with your Friends with this spoofed number.

How to Run Multiple Whatsapp Account on Your Android Phone

WhatsApp is one of the most popular messenger app that also lets you share pictures, videos, music files and so on. By now, everyone of us have WhatsApp in our smartphones. I prefer WhatsApp among other messaging apps due to its simplicity and instant messaging service.

Although each and everything is quite handy in WhatsApp, but "What’s the most disturbing part that you came across?" For me it is:

If you run dual SIM in your Android smartphones, you might be willing to enjoy two separate WhatsApp account for your two different telephone numbers on your smartphone. Isn’t it?

However, this is where WhatsApp puts limitations on its users. WhatsApp users can not use more than one WhatsApp account on their mobile devices.

However, you are probably wondering:

"How do I find an excellent solution for this problem that actually works?"

Today, I am introducing you two different Android apps -- OGWhatsApp and SwitchMe -- that allows users to run multiple WhatsApp accounts on a single smartphone.

METHOD 1: USING OGWhatsApp
OGWhatsApp is an Android app that allows you to use two separate WhatsApp accounts on your single Android device without any need to root your Android device.

While running your normal WhatsApp account on your smartphone, you can follow some simple steps (below) in order to run a different WhatsApp account on the OGWhatsApp.

Follow these simple steps to go:

Step 1: Take a complete backup of your WhatsApp data and restore it.
Step 2: Delete all the WhatsApp data by going to Settings>apps>WhatsApp>Clear Data.
Step 3: Rename the /sdcard/WhatsApp directory to /sdcard/OGWhatsApp. You can use any file manager for Android to do this task, or from Windows.
Step 4: Uninstall your original WhatsApp app from your Android device.
Step 5: Now install OGWhatsApp in your Android smartphone.
Step 6: Once installed, remember to verify your old number that was previously registered with the original WhatsApp to OGWhatsApp. That is it.
Step 7: Now re-install the official WhatsApp for your other number from the play store.

This is crazy:

Enjoy two separate WhatsApp accounts for both telephone numbers on your single Android device without even rooting your Android device.

METHOD 2: USE SWITCHME TO RUN MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS

SwitchMe is another Android app that allows you to have two separate WhatsApp accounts on a single Android device, but this app requires your Android smartphone be rooted.

Here’s the deal:

Switchme multiple account app allows you to log in and out of multiple user spaces however it needs root access to do this. However, users cannot access the other profile from their current profile because each account within the multiple profiles will have its settings, applications, and data.

Follow these simple steps to go:

Step 1: Root your Android device.
Step 2: Make sure that you have WhatsApp app installed on your smartphone.
Step 3: Install SwitchMe Multiple accounts on your smartphone.
Step 4: Run SwitchMe Multiple accounts, it will ask for Superuser request that you need to grant.
Step 5: Now create a user profile with your name in SwitchMe app. This profile will be an administrator account containing all the current apps and settings, and will also reflect your WhatsApp profile that is already installed on your smartphone.
Step 6: Now create another profile using a different name by tapping on the Create Profile button in SwitchMe app, and then choose the Switch option by selecting this account.
Step 7: Now your smartphone will restart automatically and once it is ready to use, install official WhatsApp again from Google Play Store and register it for the different phone number. That is it.

Congratulations!

Now you can easily use multiple WhatsApp accounts on your single Android smartphone. The Free version of SwitchMe Multiple accounts app allows you to use only two user account.

So, I have made available solutions for both users who want to use multiple WhatsApp accounts on their smartphone without rooting their Android device and with rooting their Android device respectively.

How to Enable Whatsapp Voice Calling Feature for Android without Rooting

Popular mobile messaging service WhatsApp has started rolling out its most expected Free voice calling features for Android user with version 2.11.508 of WhatsApp, which is the app’s latest version. On Friday, several Android mobile users were able to use the voice calling feature on WhatsApp after receiving a call from a friend who already had the service activated. Here in this tutorial you can get the simple procedure to activate Whatsapp Voice Calling Feature to your Android device.

New Update for Whatsapp to Activate Whatsapp Calls:

Some screenshots of WhatsApp’s new voice calling feature appeared on Reddit. Reportedly, this new feature will allow WhatsApp users to make free voice calls to their online pals by simply tapping your phone icon to call their WhatsApp friends.

A reddit user – Pradnesh Patil, posted the screenshots of the Whatsapp’s voice calling feature and said, Its like an invite thing, where a person with the call feature needs to “call” another person who wants to start using the feature, it only appears to work for people running Lollipop 5.0.x on a Nexus 5 phone.

The latest build(2.11.508) downloaded from Whatsapp’s Official site, has this feature. As this feature is still in beta mode, not everyone who downloads and install this latest build will get the new feature. WhatsApp hasn’t officially announced the roll-out but with the number of devices supporting the feature, we can anticipate an announcement any time soon. But many people don’t know How to enable it? Let us find out. Before that check out the Minimum requirements to Get this Whatsapp voice calling feature.

Minimum Requirements:

• Android OS should be 2.1 or above.
• Active Internet connection
• Tablet devices are not supported

How to Enable WhatsApp Voice Calling?

• In order to get the feature activated on your phone, Android users must first update their app to the latest version.

Click here to Download Latest version of Whatsapp to activate free voice calling

• The file size is 18.52MB and would require Android 2.1 and higher and to get the calling feature you need to have a Android 4.4 KitKat and above version running your Android handset.
• After downloading click on Install button.
• Your Whatsapp Calls has been activated successfully

• Once updated, you need to find a user who already has the feature activated and ask them to call you.
• This will activate the voice calling feature on your WhatsApp, granting you the access to invite other friends on your contact list to do the same.

• That’s it now you can use Whatsapp with the person who already got Activated.

The feature is not available yet on the iPhone although WhatsApp’s recent iOS update had introduced a calling button within the chat window. The feature also doesn’t work on Windows Phone hadsets, at the moment.

Voice calling applications aren’t new, apps like Viber, Skype, Line, Hike even support VoIP. But as Whatsapp has highest user count (700 million active users) in social messaging application, it gives a tough competition for its competitors.