WhatsApp brings several features to web version of the communication platform

Earlier this week reports surfaced about some Facebook inspired changes coming to the WhatsApp app on mobile devices. The WhatsApp development team has been busy on other areas of the platform including the backend which is affecting the web interface. The impact for users will be more flexibility in managing conversations and profiles without having to use their smartphones.

Users who access WhatsApp through a browser will find that they can now edit their profile photo and their status message. Just hover over these items on your profile in order to reveal access to edit functions.

When looking at chats within WhatsApp, if you check the overflow menu you will find several new options listed. These include the ability to delete or archive one-on-one chats. Group chats benefit as well as users can archive, mute or exit from those. Users have also noted that some keyboard shortcuts are appearing intermittently for all actions. Since their appearance seems to be hit or miss at the moment, it looks like the developers are still trying to work out a couple things on the back end.

The final set of tweaks appear in the contact and group info screens. Replicating some of the new overflow options, users will now find big red buttons to delete a chat with a contact or exit a group chat.

Users do not need to do anything in particular to access these changes as they are served up from the server side.

source: Android Police

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