{"id":105192,"date":"2018-07-25T09:09:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T09:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=105192"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:15:05","slug":"whatsapp-multimedia-notification-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-multimedia-notification-update\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp notifications are getting a massive update"},"content":{"rendered":"

WhatsApp is going to start showing photos, GIFS, and videos in notifications<\/h2>\n

You\u2019ll soon start noticing a rather large change when you receive WhatsApp notifications. They are going to start including the multimedia content your contacts sent, including photos and videos. They should start to look something like this:<\/p>\n

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WhatsApp will start showing message multimedia in the notifications<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This news comes from the guys over WABetaInfo, who are constantly monitoring additions to the advanced beta version of WhatsApp. The new notification feature has been found in WhatsApp version 12.18.80 of WhatsApp for iPhone. There is still no official word from WhatsApp about this new feature.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t want huge multimedia-filled WhatsApp notifications, you\u2019ll have the ability to disable this new feature. If you like the sound of WhatsApp\u2019s updated notifications, however, you\u2019ll also be able to download the multimedia directly from the notification.<\/p>\n

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WhatsApp is going to start showing photos, GIFS, and videos in notifications You\u2019ll soon start noticing a rather large change when you receive WhatsApp notifications. They are going to start including the multimedia content your contacts sent, including photos and videos. They should start to look something like this: This news comes from the guys … Continue reading “WhatsApp notifications are getting a massive update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":105193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1082,2333,1066,1083,1040,1035,1043],"usertag":[790],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-105192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-android","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-messaging-apps","tag-social-media","tag-whatsapp","usertag-whatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327630,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105192\/revisions\/327630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105192"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=105192"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=105192"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=105192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}