Hyderabad: Instant messaging app WhatsApp brings new features to iOS app that allows users to include video in their chat backups, can share location directly with others.

Instant messaging app WhatsApp recently announced new features for Android users, and now it announced updated version for iOS app. The updated version (2.12.5) WhatsApp iOS app brings new features that allow the users to include videos into their chat backups, improves VoiceOver support and now users can share location directly to WhatsApp.

The updated version WhatsApp for iOS app brings better support for VoiceOver and introduced an improved design cropping for images and videos. With the updated version app users can share contact information through contacts app and can share locations in Apple Maps directly in WhatsApp. When users are sharing location in app directly, it will appear as a large thumbnail.

With this new update earlier messages will now load automatically as users scroll chats. Videos in chat backups feature can be enabled via settings options, Chats and Calls, Chat Backup. The users can customize notification for separate chats and mute the noisier ones. Recently the instant messaging app WhatsApp has released various features for Android users including marks as unread, custom notification and others. Now all the features which are available for Android are also available in iOS app.