WhatsApp Bans 3rd Party Apps & Blocks Users for 24hrs!

Amazon thermoWhatsApp has started banning 3rd party apps today onwards, while it's main focus is to take down Whatsapp+.

WhatsApp already has an official app that most people normally use, but many users uses some 3rd party apps that offers more features compared to the official one. Users of these apps are finding a message saying that they are temporarily banned from using the service & this temporary ban is 24 hours long!

Ban message visible on WhatsApp

So now if you still haven’t been banned yet, you can uninstall the 3rd party app and install the official app from their website/Playstore. But if you have been banned, you will have to wait the 24 hour even if you try to install n use the official app.

Info on the WhatsApps Website's Faq's

The developer of WhatsApp+ is asking the users to use the official app until they have a solution for this and it's quite obvious that WhatsApp+ won't find a solution.

So it's pretty clear that people should install the official WhatsApp asap if they haven't been blocked yet! And for the users that'll miss the features of the 3rd party apps might probably shift to other messenger apps whichever suits them or use the Official app anyways lol

Source : WhatsApp

Via : 9to5google

Disable 'Read Receipts' on Whatsapp via the latest update!

About 10 days ago, WhatsApp introduced their "Read Receipts" feature (also known as "blue ticks update" lol) on their messenger apps for Android & iOS. Means the sender can now know if the receiver has read the messages or not.

Seems a good update for stalkers and parents! but for many of the 'normal' users, it became a topic of concern. Misunderstanding were imminent! It caused panic across the internet, also many memes were created on this topic.

But no worries now as WhatApp has added an option into the settings menu to disable “Read receipts” in its new update. (if you disable this option for yourself, then you too won’t be able to see if someone else reads your messages, works similar to 'last seen' feature)

This update is available for download from WhatsApp website whose link is given below (version 2.11.444) and would be available on the PlayStore soon.

WhatsApp v2.11.444 (official website direct link)

WhatsApp website (download page link)

Settings >> Account >> Privacy

The Blue Ticks : Whatsapp quietly rolled out the 'Read Receipt' feature

WhatsApp has introduced a small but significant to their Android and iOS versions of its app.

Normally a  user was notified if a sent message was delivered by indication of two tick marks next to the message; But now WhatsApp users can now know if this sent message has been read!

Now when the recipient opens up the chat screen, the two ticks next the message turn blue. In case of a group chat, the two ticks turn blue when all the participants have read a message.

This feature was in tests since last month or so, users simply got 'mysterious blue ticks' all of a sudden and users were freaking out, wondering why they got those ticks. Such blue ticks were rare. And also after this official rollout of this feature, not everyone is experiencing this update; some people report that they don't get such ticks completely/on specific chats.

Well, this new WhatsApp feature won't helpful to the majority of the users over the globe, it'll be like a headache; the user would be compelled to reply, and it he doesn't, the blue ticks would create anger into the sender's mind!
Seems there's no point of turning off "last seen" now.

Let's hope that WhatsApp will soon roll in an option that allows the user to switch off this new feature, being a Whatsapp user myself, I personally think there was no need for this upgrade.

Update :

Long Press a sent message and you'll notice a new 'info button' on the top, clicking it gives you more info about the time the message was sent, and when it was read.

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1. Clicking the info button in a group chat...

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2. Clicking the info button in a Personal Chat...

WhatsApp gets removed from Windows Phone Store temporarily.

The popular messaging app WhatsApp went missing on the Windows Phone store!

According to WhatsApp, there were some technical issues with the app, due to which it had to be pulled from the store. WhatsApp is now working with Microsoft to resolve these issues before the app can be submitted again.

Statement given by Whatsapp Team :

"Unfortunately due to technical issues, we have chosen to un-publish WhatsApp Messenger on the Windows Phone platform. We are working closely with Microsoft to resolve the issues and hope to return to the store shortly. We apologize to our users for the temporary inconvenience."

Maybe its about Windows Phone 8.1, it might be a major bug which compelled the team to un-publish such a popular messenger.

Those who already have the app should have no issues, although new users will have to wait some time before the app is back on the store for downloading.

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