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Instagram intends to focus more on video content in 2022, with a particular emphasis on Reels. Instagram’s head, Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram’s Adam Mosseri, said in a video message that the platform will double down on video and focus on Reels in 2022. Mosseri stated that Instagram will continue to grow and consolidate its video products around Reels. “We are going to have to rethink what Instagram is because the world is changing quickly and we’re going to have to change with it,” Mosseri said. Mosseri stated that Instagram will…

WhatsApp has reportedly been working on a new Communities feature, and we now have our first look at it. The Communities feature is expected to enhance the app’s functionality by allowing up to ten groups to be linked in a single ‘Community.’ The feature was recently discovered in an iOS beta build and is expected to be available on both platforms soon. Admins of a community will have more control than admins of a group and will be able to do things like decide who can and cannot message on…

WhatsApp, the Meta-owned short messaging platform used by over 2 billion people around the world, is constantly updating and adding new features. The WhatsApp Messenger beta for iOS has received a new update, version 2.22.1.1. This new update includes hidden references to creating Communities in order to prepare for a future update. WhatsApp was developing a feature called Communities. This feature extends WhatsApp’s group feature, in which group admins have more control over other WhatsApp groups. A WhatsApp Community admin is said to have more power than a group admin….

WhatsApp appears to be working on a new voice call interface. The interface would be available in both the Android and iOS versions of the messaging app. Through this new interface, WhatsApp hopes to improve the experience of individual and group voice calls. According to WABetainfo, WhatsApp is currently working to introduce a redesigned interface for users when making voice calls. The changes are not yet available even for WhatsApp beta testers. WhatsApp is redesigning the interface for a future update to make it more compact and modern, organising the…

Several weeks after the release of Meta’s Horizon Worlds, reports surfaced of a female beta tester alleging that she was groped on the virtual reality (VR) platform. The beta tester allegedly told Meta that she was groped by a stranger on Horizon Worlds, and that other people agreed with her. She also shared her experience on Facebook in the Horizon Worlds beta testing group. “Sexual harassment is no joke on the regular internet, but being in VR adds another layer that makes the event more intense,” The Verge quoted the…

Signal now allows up to 40 people to participate in a group video conference. Despite the increased number of call participants, the messaging app says that the platform assures that all communication is end-to-end encrypted. Signal said it uses “Selective Forwarding” technology, which allows calls to be routed through servers that transfer the call’s contents to other participants without sacrificing privacy. It’s presently being rolled out to Signal’s Android and iOS versions. “We launched group calls using a modified version of one of them, but shortly found that even with…

Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking app, Facebook, had a one-of-a-kind name when he started it. However, Zuckerberg’s choice to bring Meta into the picture this time proved to be problematic for companies with the same name. After Facebook unveiled its new identity, a small time Instagram publisher with the moniker Meta unexpectedly vanished from the platform. Quartz was the first to report on the incident. An Instagram account with the same name existed long before Facebook changed its name to Meta. The account belongs to the same-named small-time magazine, which primarily…