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  • WhatsApp for iPhone gains GIF search feature

    Facebook-owned WhatsApp two days ago gained support for sending and receiving animated GIFs, as well as sending short videos or Live Photos as GIF attachments. Today the team issued a small update to WhatsApp’s iPhone application in the App Store, bumping version number to 2.16.16 and adding another handy feature: a built-in option that lets you find animated GIFs to attach to your messages from within the app.

    Begin by tapping a conversation in the list or create a new chat, then tap the plus button next to the text field at the bottom and select Photos & Videos Library. Hit a new GIF search button on the bottom left to get to the dedicated GIF search screen.

    From there, search for the perfect animated GIF by typing one or more keywords in the search field. Tap the Starred tab at the bottom to browse only GIF animations you favorited. When you find the animated GIF you like, tap it.

    WhatsApp’s built-in editor pops up letting you optionally trim the animation, type some text on it, crop or annotate it and more. When satisfied with the edits, type your message and hit the blue Send button.

    Your contact shall see the attached GIF animate inline.

    WhatsApp for iPhone is available for free on the App Store.

    Source link: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/11/09/whatsapp-for-iphone-gains-gif-search-feature/

  • Viber launches Public Accounts for brands, overhauls media menus in iPhone app

    Popular messaging app Viber today launched a new account format, called Public Accounts, which allows businesses and brands to interact with users. More than a thousand Public Accounts from such brands as BBC, Mashable, The Washington Post, The Weather Channel and more were available at launch, with many more to follow in the coming days and weeks. Subscribing to Public Accounts allows users to get updates from brands they love and post messages that other followers will see.

    Public Accounts marks the first time users and businesses will be able to interact with each other without having each other as a contact on Viber. The company has no plans to charge for Public Accounts at this stage.

    To find Public Accounts from your favorite brands and businesses, tap the Public tab in Viber for iPhone, then hit the magnifying glass in the upper left corner to browse featured Public Accounts and those that are relevant to your current location.

    Viber’s iPhone application on the App Store was bumped to version 6.5 this morning with support for the newly launched Public Account and a simplified media menu that lets you send photos, videos and voice messages with fewer taps than before.

    Left: Dedicated gallery, camera and sticker icons let you express yourself faster
    Right: tap and hold the mic icon to record, release to send or slide left to cancel.

    In addition, Public Accounts will open the door to Viber hosting bots, too.

    Public Accounts should not be confused with Public Chats, a feature Viber rolled out in 2014 that lets one or more users send public messages that everyone can see.

    According to TechCrunch, Viber’s API will soon be integrated with popular CRM packages to let businesses send/read customer support messages via Viber and see them alongside all of their other social media, email and messaging interactions.

    Viber claims 800 million users and is owned by Japan’s Rakuten.

    The 69.9-megabyte Viber app is available free on the App Store.

    Source link: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/11/09/viber-launches-public-accounts-for-brands-overhauls-media-menus-in-iphone-app/