Every day, WhatsApp innovates and adds more features to its application, and many of these new features are discovered before they are officially launched by the Twitter profile. @WABetaInfo, they recently discovered that there are two new hidden functions in WhatsApp, one for photo albums and another for real-time location.
Real-time location
Real-time location is a feature that is being implemented in several resources today, such as Google Maps, which recently released this function and now allows people to share their location in real time through a link.
On WhatsApp it will work in a similar way, people will have the possibility to activate or deactivate their location in real time, and the function will be in a section where it shows all your contacts and their location, and also the last time your location was updated.
WhatsApp for Android: you can read how many contacts are sharing their live locations in that exact moment. #hidden
— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) April 24, 2017
As you can see in the Tweet below, according to @WABetaInfo you will be able to disable real-time sharing.
You'll be able to disable the live location, so if you don't want that your friends know your location, you don't have to enable it.
— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) April 22, 2017
And in the video below you can see in more detail how this feature will work in practice.
SNEAK PEEK #4#Exclusive by @WABetaInfo: how the live location really works! (DISABLED BY DEFAULT) pic.twitter.com/PbMwI9XLd2
— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) April 21, 2017
Photo albums
The album feature is more to make the WhatsApp environment cleaner, for example when you send more than one image to a certain contact, they are separated and take up a very large space in the conversation, what WhatsApp will implement is the joining of all the photos when they are sent, as if it were an album, the example can be seen below:
SNEAK PEEK #2
WhatsApp for iOS 2.17.20: new album feature!
Opening an album, you can see all shared photos (DISABLED BY DEFAULT) pic.twitter.com/s6bmJh5mBE— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo) April 21, 2017
Watch the video below talking a little more about the subject: