Cross-platform mobile messaging app, Whatsapp, has announced the latest upgrade to its application.
The upgrade, though small compared to more recent additions, allows users to write in different formats.
The latest addition can be used to add emphasis to certain words when sending messages. Users can add certain characters before and after the words or sentences to make them go bold, italic or with a line through the centre, known as a strikethrough.
The feature was originally tested in beta but has now been rolled out to iOS and Android users as part of the most recent update.
Other recent additions include the blue ticks that reveal if a message has been read, which have now been made visible on the chat list screen.
Messages can be ‘starred’, to save them for later, and as part of the previous iPhone update, the messaging service let users send files.
Pushed out to iOS platforms last month, the update introduced a total of five new features to WhatsApp users on iPhone.
Users can now share photos, images and other files stored on other third party apps – including iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox and Microsoft’s OneDrive – with their contacts on WhatsApp.
Beyond photos, the app added the ability to send and received PDF files. Once users receive the file they can see an in-line preview.
Tapping the preview image while it is displayed will open the PDF in the iOS document viewer.
To make text appear bold, type an asterisk before and after the text e.g. *biggie*
To make text appear italicised, the underscore character needs to be typed before and after the text e.g. _ biggie _
And to strikethrough a word, type the tilde character before and after the text e.g. ~biggie ~
Users can also additionally apply all three formats to a word: *~_biggie_~*
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