{"id":77132,"date":"2014-11-19T17:23:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T15:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=77132"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:20:51","slug":"viber-updated-with-full-ios-8-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/viber-updated-with-full-ios-8-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Viber updated with full iOS 8 support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular free messaging app <a href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vibe<\/a>r has been updated and now takes advantage of the new features in <strong>iOS 8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>With Viber 5.1, you now get <strong>interactive notifications<\/strong>. This means that you can reply to Viber messages from the notification you receive on your lock screen by swiping and choosing one of the options you are given.<\/p>\n<p>The second development is Viber&#8217;s use of <strong>Share Extensions<\/strong>. This is less obvious, but it means that you can add Viber to the list of apps that appear whenever you tap a share button in another app in iOS.<\/p>\n<p>To <strong>add Viber as a share option<\/strong>, tap share. Then in the second row, where you see <em>Message<\/em>, <em>Mail <\/em>and other icons, swipe left. Tap <em>More<\/em>, and you&#8217;ll see Viber in the list. Switching it to green means you&#8217;ll see Viber in the list of default apps for sharing from now on.<\/p>\n<p>Download <a href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Viber for iOS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Viber is also available on <a href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/windows-phone-7\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows Phone<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/blackberry\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blackberry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/symbian\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Symbian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows desktop<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/viber.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mac OS X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Best free messaging apps\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/best-free-messaging-apps\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Best free messaging apps<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype? What are the most and least secure messaging services?\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/whatsapp-facebook-messenger-skype-what-are-the-most-and-least-secure-messaging-services\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype? What are the most and least secure messaging services?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What's changed in iOS 8?\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/what-changes-in-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What&#8217;s changed in iOS 8?<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular free messaging app Viber has been updated and now takes advantage of the new features in iOS 8. With Viber 5.1, you now get interactive notifications. This means that you can reply to Viber messages from the notification you receive on your lock screen by swiping and choosing one of the options you are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/viber-updated-with-full-ios-8-support\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Viber updated with full iOS 8 support&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":16},"categories":[],"tags":[2646],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-77132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionviber"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77132","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\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329813,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77132\/revisions\/329813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77132"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=77132"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=77132"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=77132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}