{"id":116123,"date":"2017-03-16T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T10:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=116123"},"modified":"2017-03-16T12:30:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T10:30:34","slug":"whatsapp-is-bringing-back-text-statuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/116123-whatsapp-is-bringing-back-text-statuses","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp is bringing back text statuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp said it will bring back its text status feature, while keeping its current image-based status system, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/15\/whatsapp-brings-back-status\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Text statuses appeared in the Android beta version of WhatsApp following consumer backlash regarding the new image-based replacement service which rolled out in February.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp said it will roll out a text status feature to Android users in the next week.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp users will be able to update their status through the About section of their profiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe heard from our users that people missed the ability to set a persistent text-only update in their profile, so we\u2019ve integrated this feature into the About section in profile settings,\u201d WhatsApp told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp will continue to build on its new status feature, which allows users to share images, GIFs, and videos.<\/p>\n<p>The text-based status feature is also set to return to WhatsApp for iPhone users.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/203022-whatsapp-bringing-back-text-status.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband <\/a><\/strong>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/202936-whatsapp-web-security-flaw-discovered.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">WhatsApp Web security flaw discovered<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp said it will bring back its text status feature, while keeping its current image-based status system, reported TechCrunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":91987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[19663,12509],"class_list":["post-116123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-status","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}