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WhatsApp has been adding new features and innovations to its service for a long time, especially since other instant messaging services such as Telegram, have arrived stomping on the market. A few weeks ago, we were able to enjoy new services included in WhatsApp that make our day-to-day life easier, such as la possibility of sending and receiving PDF documents or marking messages as favorites. However, in the subject of text there has hardly been any news from the beginning.Until now, we could only use plain text, no formatting.
But that's going to change. Starting today, WhatsApp has added in its beta version the option to add rich text with bold and italicssomething that for example is already available in other services like Slack. Version beta is only available on Android for those users who are signed up for the Google Play beta program and your version for iOS doesn't have a set date yet, but it is rumored that it will be possible in the last few weeks.
How to format text?
To give format to the text we need to use asterisks and underscores. To write a word or phrase in bold we have to write it between asterisks and to write a phrase in italics we have to write it between underscores. For example:
- This sentence is written in bold
- _ This sentence is written in italics _
The receiver will receive the text without asterisks or hyphens, as we can see in the test carried out in the photo. What has not clarified WhatsApp is whether there will be a toolbar or option to edit our messages with these rich formats or, on the contrary, we will have to continue editing them with asterisks and dashes as in the beta version.
It is a fact that WhatsApp is considerably improving its instant messaging service, not only because of novelties such as the implementation of text enriched, but because of the improvements that I have been adding in recent months in terms of security, for example.We recently talked about how WhatsApp has increased privacy in your calls after all the controversies that arose with the FBI and Apple after the shooting in San Bernardino After that, WhatsApp incorporated an encrypted system for calls over the Internet so that not only was privacy protected in text messages but also in voice calls.
Another of the most attractive novelties that WhatsApp has introduced in these months have been the new Emoji emoticons for their versions of Android and iOS. We are talking about 74 new Emojis, some of which have been requested for a long time times by application users. Perhaps this had to do with the competition from Telegram and its powerful stickers that even allow users to develop their own stickers, but without a doubt, What was best received was the incorporation of different skin tones and types of couples and families of any sexual nature.
