WeChat Has a New Feature: "Social Tact is Immediately Enhanced"
Many users on social media platforms have reported that WeChat is in the process of gray-scale testing a feature to collapse image sending on its iOS version. When sending three or more pictures or videos, users can choose to display them in a combined format, making the chat interface cleaner.
The user also added: “Version 8.0.69 of the iOS system, selecting three or more videos or photos will show the option to send them merged.” “Just discovered a new feature, it should be an internal test.”
As of press time, the topic “WeChat can collapse image sending” has topped the Weibo hot search list, and its attention continues to rise.
It is reported that the function is currently only open to a small range of users on the iOS version. After users select three or more pictures or videos, a merged sending option will appear on the sending interface. Once enabled, the pictures will be presented in a collapsed card format.
At the same time, some users have reported that the recipient of this function can also swipe left and right to preview, and click the expand button to view the complete picture, and can also restore the collapsed state through the collapse button.
Previously, when users sent multiple pictures at once, they would be arranged vertically in the chat window, easily causing screen flooding and affecting the reading experience. The collapsed image sending function effectively reduces interface occupation, making information display more concise, especially suitable for travel, daily life and other multi-picture sharing scenarios.
However, it should be noted that this collapsed image sending is in the testing stage and is only visible to some users. The official has not yet announced the time of full push.
In this regard, many netizens have praised and expressed their expectations: “Social tact is immediately enhanced,” “It’s too useful, I often feel uncomfortable being flooded with a bunch of pictures,” “Good news for office workers.”
In addition, the “WeChat notification displays avatar” function has also been enthusiastically pursued by netizens recently. At 0:00 on March 18th, WeChat employee “Kecun Xiaojiang” posted that the new message notification display avatar function in the iOS version of WeChat is currently in the stage of gradual expansion, “I asked the product team, iOS WeChat notification display avatar, everyone will be able to use it soon.”
Regarding the recent large number of users reporting the problem of “notifications not displaying avatars,” Kecun Xiaojiang explained that this may be related to the so-called “submit feedback to enable new functions” strategy circulating on social platforms, which led some users to mistakenly believe that they could obtain the function in advance through feedback. In fact, this is just a coincidence in time.
Regarding why the function needs to be gradually expanded, Kecun Xiaojiang said that this is a common software release strategy, called “gray release” in the software development process. In gray release, the new version of the software will not be immediately released to all users, but will first select a small number of users for testing and trial. This can gradually introduce new functions or fix Bugs in the production environment, thereby reducing potential risks.
Regarding the collapsed image sending function this time, Kecun Xiaojiang said when interacting with netizens on Weibo: “You’ve already started using it? I haven’t yet.”