WhatsApp Beta New Developments
Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has submitted the beta version of its next update that supports an in-app browser, a feature which is still under development.
To tackle the spread of fake news via its platform,
WhatsApp's new beta version shows a test feature that would run Google-powered
web-checks on images being shared on the app to verify their legitimacy. Called
"Search by Image", the feature would search an image on the web that
a user either sent or received in their chats using official Google application
programming interfaces (APIs) to find similar or equal images on the web.
"If you choose to search an image, WhatsApp will alert
you that it will be uploaded to Google after which WhatsApp will open the
browser to show the results," WABetaInfo reported on Friday. The feature
would help users understand if news is real or fake.
When you receive an image, you can try to search it on the web and read information related to that image on the web," the report said.
Apart from this, WhatsApp version 2.19.73 beta update also
adds emojis natively on the app keyboard. The release and roll out
specifications of the features remain unclear as of now.
WhatsApp is also testing an in-app browser on the platform
to allow users to open links within the platform itself.
"If you choose to use the in-app browser when it will
be available in future, you should not worry because WhatsApp or Facebook would
not be able to access your search history because the feature uses an Android
Application Programming Interface (API), so everything is managed by the
system," the report said.
The feature is also being built to detect unsafe
pages using the "Safe Browsing" feature which was added to Android
8.1 last year. It would alert users when a page is infected with malicious
content.
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