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WhatsApp features ranked, as per the way we feel most impact. WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world, used by over 1.2 billion people worldwide and 200 million in India alone. Despite its success, the Facebook-owned company has not become complacent and always keeps the competition on its toes by releasing new features every few weeks. 2017, of course, saw the overhauled WhatsApp Status (an aping of Snapchat), but there have been many other small updates this year that didn’t get as much attention. From increased media sharing limit to video streaming, we take a look at all the new WhatsApp features released this year alone. While going down this memory lane, we’ve ranked features in the order that we feel made the most impact (or will make, if in beta) in user experience. 1. Delete for Everyone WhatsApp in October made the Delete for Everyone feature live for all users, the biggest change to chats on the platform since the blue ticks were introduced. As...

WhatsApp to bring in-chat payment option to India by December Highlights WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform in India with over 200 million users. The messaging platform has teamed up with three Banks namely SBI, ICICI and HDFC. It will need a bank's UPI structure. We've been hearing about WhatsApp to soon offer payment option within WhatsApp chat. Now, a new report surfaces claiming WhatsApp Pay could be made available by December. According to , WhatsApp Pay feature is in testing and could be launched by December. India could be among the first countries. India is one of the biggest markets for WhatsApp and so this move isn't surprising. WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform in India with over 200 million users. The report further adds that the messaging platform has teamed up with three banks namely SBI, ICICI and HDFC . It will need a bank's UPI structure. WhatsApp is working on an in-chat payment option. This is in lin...