Whatsapp for Web has recently added a whole lot of new features to its site, which enables it to be just as accessible and efficient as its mobile counterpart.
The quiet update, spotted by Android Police, now allows people to archive chats, group or lone, delete chats, and mute or leave chats. The update also allows people to change their profile photos and status.
The site has also introduced keyboard shortcuts for various functions, however these seem to be disappearing and re-appearing intermittently, which the site is said to be working on.
Although these updates are fantastic for their users, there is still a huge audience that has been kept in the corner – the iOS users. Those who own iPhones still cannot access the Whatsapp for Web service “due to platform limitations,” the startup says, according to Digital Trends.
As well as that, the Web service only works on Google’s Chrome browser, and for one to access the service, their smartphone must stay connected to the Internet.
Whatsapp for Web launched at the start of 2015, six years after its debut on mobile. The app has been hugely popular and successful, with around 800 million global users. The app was just picked up by Facebook last year for a whopping $19billion.
Despite its massive user base, Whatsapp has had relatively low revenue due to its lack of ad services. Facebook boss, Mark Zuckerberg, has said that he won’t start thinking seriously about monetarizing Whatsapp until its user base tops 1 billion, which could be by the end of 2015 by the looks of it.
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