WhatsApp shows the estimated time to load a document in its Beta

WhatsApp introduced a new function that shows Beta users on Android, iOS, Web and Desktop the estimated time of arrival and upload of a document that you want to share on the instant messaging network.

The new function of WhatsApp allows both to know when a document will be downloaded in its entirety on the recipient’s device or uploaded to the platform’s servers to be sent within a chat.

WABetaInfo reminds, after advancing the information, that this new function already arrived at WhatsApp Desktop last March and this week it is rolling out to some Beta users on both Android (v2.22.8.11) and iOS (v22.8.0.74).

To offer this information to the user, a percentage is shown just below the document in question and, to its right in parentheses, the estimated time for the operation to reach 100 percent.

The medium claims that it is a very useful function, especially for users of the Beta in Argentinathe only country so far in which WhatsApp allows sharing documents of up to 2GB in size.

2GB file transfer

WhatsApp has modified a limit on its platform to allow the sending of larger files and documents, up to 2GB, as part of a test started with users in Argentina.

The messaging application allows you to send files of up to 100MB through chatsan insufficient limit in a context of remote work and distance relationships that sometimes requires greater freedom in sending documents.

It is precisely this demand made by users that WhatsApp is now trying to respond to, and for this a test has begun in Argentina, whereby the file size limit goes from 100MB to 2GB, as the company has confirmed to Europe Press.

The test has been activated for users from this country, but the contacts to whom they send files up to 2GB can be from anywhere in the world. They can access it from the Android and iOS apps and the web and desktop versions.

In recent years, the number of people who, instead of using the traditional WhatsApp on their cell phone, have begun to download the APK known as WhatsApp Plus has grown, which allows them to have a series of “benefits” and options that users of the original app. So people who are a little more obsessed with their privacy tend to migrate to the plus version found on the Internet.

An APK is an Android file that can be downloaded to the phone and use all the tools that an application has. This is how there is the, not known by all, WhatsApp Plus, an APK that allows its users not to let other contacts see it online, see the messages that have been deleted, completely change the color of your WhatsApp or download the photo of any contact you have saved.

However, the WhatsApp Plus 2022 version would not only have benefits and advantages for people who download it. Therefore, it could become a dangerous tool for everyone who has the APK on their Android device.

In recent days, from the WhatsApp application, an “ultimatum” has been given to all the people who, for whatever reason, started using WhatsApp Plus on their cell phone, so there are very important reasons why it should be downloaded this variation of the original application that we all know.

One of the biggest reasons not to use the APK is that the conversations are not encrypted. Something that many people do not understand, but that translates in that the chats you have will not have any security and can be seen by third parties with any type of interest, unlike the original WhatsApp.

You also have to keep in mind that with WhatsApp Plus you lose the backup of all the conversations. It is an advantage that the original WhatsApp gives that allows a copy of the users’ chats to be made every day so that when they change their cell phone or number they can retrieve these conversations.

However, perhaps the strongest reason for removing WhatsApp Plus today is that the original application could “ban” you. which means that if they decide, they could block the account for life, since their conditions of use are not being respected.

Another reason why using this variation of the original application represents a danger for cell phones is that malicious files can be received, since the conversations are not encrypted (as we said before) they will have many possibilities of receiving some type of virus that affects completely the performance of your device.

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