{"id":147161,"date":"2019-08-20T16:50:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=147161"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:33:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:33:38","slug":"whatsapp-web-is-getting-some-nice-image-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-web-is-getting-some-nice-image-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp Web is getting some nice image upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WhatsApp Web is a great way of staying in touch with your friends and family while using your computer. You open it up, zap the QR code with your phone, and then you\u2019re away. I\u2019ve a WhatsApp Web<\/a> window open right now and I\u2019m pretty sure, if you\u2019re reading this article on your laptop or desktop PC, you do too.<\/p>\n

The only thing with WhatsApp Web though, is that isn\u2019t as fully featured as the mobile app. I\u2019m not going to get into the fact you need your phone to be on to use it; which rumor has it, WhatsApp is working to fix<\/a>, I\u2019m talking more here about viewing images on WhatsApp Web. When you receive a big batch of images all at once you can view them as an album on your mobile, but when you go to WhatsApp Web all you see is a stream of single images. This looks set to change.<\/p>\n

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Image Albums are coming to WhatsApp Web<\/h2>\n

There are two main problems with receiving a lot of photos at once and only being able to look at them one at a time. The first, is that it breaks up the chat. If you\u2019re chatting to somebody about their holiday and they send you 57 holiday snaps with them all showing up individually, you\u2019re going to have to do a lot of scrolling in between what was said before they were sent and what was sent afterwards. On mobile, this isn\u2019t an issue as all those photos get grouped into an Album and you can see what was said before and after right there on the same screen.<\/p>\n

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The other main problem is downloading or sharing the images. If somebody has sent you a group of photos and you decide you want to keep or share them, it can be a painstaking process going through each of them and hitting the download or share button individually. Again, on mobile, this isn\u2019t an issue and one click will download and share them all.<\/p>\n

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This is why it is good news that WhatsApp is developing an Albums feature for WhatsApp Web. Although not yet even available in the beta version of WhatsApp it has been spotted in some advance code by the team at WABetaInfo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The advance Albums feature for WhatsApp Web will work just like the Albums feature on WhatsApp for mobile. Whenever you receive multiple items at once, they\u2019ll automatically be grouped together into an Album. Furthermore, you\u2019ll also be able to share and download Albums entirely from WhatsApp Web, just like you can on mobile.<\/p>\n

This is still a very advanced feature, however, that still has a lot of development ahead of it before it\u2019ll get a general roll-out.<\/p>\n

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