WhatsApp is already testing sending files and video calls

We do not know what must be happening in the WhatsApp offices these last six months. We have not really stopped criticizing them when they played, but we are not going to cut ourselves in praising them when they deserve it, and it is that lately they have taken as a challenge or a career the fact of including news in what until now was the most poor of messaging applications, at the same time as the most popular. The novelty that arises now is the possibility of sending files through WhatsApp, something that many of us have been wanting for a long time, and that apparently from the WhatsApp laboratories they are already testing to integrate it in the next update.

WhatsApp interns must be full of work, I would not like to be one of them right now, but go ahead babieca !, because users will be delighted to receive these news. In this case, it is once again the WhatsApp translations section that is to blame.a, where a series of predetermined phrases has been filtered that predict the possibility of sending and receiving files beyond the photos and videos that we could send so far. This will benefit the application in many areas, especially in the student and work areas, for better and for worse, because the WhatsApp work groups could proliferate, which would become almost unbearable.

We love that the WhatsApp translation center is once again the first source of information, since the guys at WhatsApp have always been little given to inform about the messaging application with the most users in the world, not before, not now that it is owned by Facebook.

Among the information that we can elucidate from this translation center, we conclude that we will be able to share documents, spreadsheets and slide presentations. Definitely It will be great if you also decide to integrate this service with the most popular clouds such as Google Drive, Dropbox or iCloud. In the case of Google Drive and iCloud it is already fully integrated for backups on Android and iOS, so we would not be surprised if it were.

Regarding video calls, my colleague Pablo Aparicio has already informed you about the leaks and screenshots regarding this new function that will undoubtedly arrive in the next update. The latest "bugfixes" seems to be aimed at leveling the ground as much as possible. It would not surprise us at all, because it is not the first time that WhatsApp has launched a minor update that in reality it is not, as happened with the WhatsApp calls that were really available in the absence of a small activation code, or WhatsApp Web that during months was fully integrated into the WhatsApp code for iOS and it was easily possible to activate it through Cydia tweaks.

We do not lose hope in WhatsApp, which only lacks a decent integration with GIFs, these two new functions and a possibility to quote specific messages within group chats to truly become the queen of instant messaging applications, position that until now it has, but not by functions, but by users. The development team is working harder now than ever and they are not allowing me to write those opinion pieces against the company that were taking so long. We have all done our bit so that from WhatsApp they realize that something they were doing wrong, and they have shown us with the latest updates that they knew how to do it, but did not want to do it. Better late than never. We will keep you informed.