WhatsApp and Google Photos Roll Out New Media Tweaks
WhatsApp is testing photo suggestions inside chats, while Google Photos adds an option to silence background music in Memories.
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Two widely used apps are introducing changes to how they handle photos and videos.
WhatsApp has begun rolling out a media suggestion feature to some users on Android and iOS running the latest versions of the app, according to GSMArena. When a user opens a chat, the app can offer to send the most recent item added to the device gallery. The feature builds on WhatsApp's existing system that proposes stickers above the keyboard on Android based on the emojis being typed.
GSMArena reported that the suggestion can appear in one of two ways, and a given user will see only one of them. In the first, a toast notification surfaces above the chat bar as soon as a conversation is opened, displaying a thumbnail of the latest photo or video and asking whether the user wants to send it.
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