WhatsApp for iPhone is updated to version 2.16.8

We can now download a new update of WhatsApp for iPhone, the new version 2.16.8. An update that according to the official list of news only brings two; voicemail, when placing a WhatsApp call, you now quickly leave a voice message if your call isn’t answered. The other novelty pointing the official list of new features are bug fixes.

So far everything right, with an official list of new features in the line of WhatsApp, but if you look at the list of developments that gives us @WABetaInfo things change, and rather, as you can see in its extensive list of new features in the new version of WhatsApp for iPhone.

WhatsApp for iPhone – News:

• Updated all localizations.
• New chat message and video call icons in the Contact info section. The new chat message icon suggests a new bubbles style in the Chat section. WhatsApp is working, since 2.16.7.1 beta, on a new chat view style, that could live in next releases.
• Improvements for the Location feature.
• Improvements for bubbles that contain a Location.
• Added some checks about messages that WhatsApp isn’t able to decrypt.
• Added drawing tools.
• Added GHIPY integration for sharing animated GIFs.
• You can draw on GIF images.
• Added some new checks about encryption status in group chats. In some situation WhatsApp didn’t update the encryption status for groups.
• Many improvements for restoring the chat history.
• Improvements for supporting archive files.
• Improvements for automatically cleaning temporary directories.
• Improvements for updating the encryption value after a restore.
• Added many checks about the battery status.
• Added compression methods for files.
• Improvements for encryption files.
• Improvements for the group invite link feature.
• Improvements for the mentions feature.
• Improvements for video calls.
• Improvements for reading web pages.
• Improvements for sharing information to WhatsApp Web.
• WhatsApp INC. will be able to send you messages through the WhatsApp chat. You will see a verified badge to understand that the chat is verified, so it’s the official. It’s a “Public Service Announcement”.
• You can do a WhatsApp call directly to the “Calls” section thanks to the new Call icon.
• Added the Search bar in the “Calls” section.
• Added the “Delete all except starred” option.
• Added the “Clear All Chats” option in WhatsApp Settings > Chats.
• Removed the olympic games emoji.
• Improvements for the Spotlight integration.
• General improvements for managing the GIF sharing feature.
• Improvements for getting the GIF preview.
• Improvements for autoplaying GIFs.
• Added two new emoji flags (almost one emoji flag is for iOS 8-).
• Improvements for the backup.
• Improvements for the ‘Contact info’ section of official WhatsApp chat.
• You can use the “Undo” and “Redo” keys to restore or delete the most recent drawing action.
• Multiselect feature added, that will show you frequent, recent, groups and other chats where you will be able to forward media files. It also works with Share Extension (iOS 8+).
• Improvements for joining a group.
• When you will receive a notification you will see the name of the contact (before WhatsApp shows its push name).

As you can see, the official list of new features of the new version of WhatsApp for iPhone with the list @WABetaInfo offers us is totally different, although many of the best features are yet to come to the stable version of the application.