WhatsApp
Messenger has its extended to the interesting especially for business users
option besides pictures and videos to also send documents. First, can only PDF
files are forwarded to contacts in the usual way to send attachments. That is
likely to change in the foreseeable future.
As TechCrunch
reported, the new function is available in the Android and the iOS version of
WhatsApp available. You'll be used very similar on both platforms. On Android
you type in chat on the paperclip icon for attachments and selects the then
faded new icon "document" from. In order to create space, WhatsApp
has previous icons for "Take a photo" and "Record Video"
now grouped under "Camera". According to TechCrunch in the iOS app is
only to tap the arrow icon and in the menu that appears, "Document
sharing" select.
File types other
than PDF are users not currently displayed in the selected folder, if they want
to add a document as an attachment. That needs to improve, demonstrated by the
fact that the US journalist Sarah Perez in a case, although could attach an
image stored on Google Drive Office document, disclosure then but failed and an
error message indicating that it is an unsupported file type handle.
In addition, the
documents disclosure only works when both the sender and receiver use the
latest version of WhatsApp. Is not that the recipient of the case, informed the
app over and points out the need to update the contact WhatsApp to receive
documents.
The step is part
of the measures announced by WhatsApp in January strategy to offer more
commercially viable Served. The focus should be on facilitating companies to
communicate with customers. To allow documents as an attachment fits well with
this, such as leaflets, entrance or ticket, scanned documents and other documents
may be transferred as PDF yet. Because WhatsApp for a security issue with the
shipping manipulated vCards encryption has greatly improved, it might even be
that the transfer of PDFs - which has already established itself in e-mail
attachments as an effective means for malware distribution - in the medium term
this communication channel turns out to be safer.
Starting this
week, WhatsApp has to deal, inter alia in Germany with a large-scale
disturbance. Users complained Tuesday morning about program crashes, failed
updates and the delayed delivery of messages. Partially should be gone even
entire chat history. In the following days was above average number of problem
reports. WhatsApp itself has so far not commented on the failures. The last
entry of the Twitter account WhatsApp status, information on the short message
service disturbances, dated February 22,
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