WhatsApp confirms: Age status returns

After massive criticism, WhatsApp kicks in and returns the old status. Starting next week, Android and later iOS users will be able to use the old status sayings again.

This was probably nothing: After WhatsApp replaced the old status messages in February with a new status function, that caused millions of users worldwide for trouble. Instead of the old status sayings, new video and photo stories, such as they are known from Snapchat. But the criticism of the users was apparently so great that WhatsApp now officially announced according to TechCrunch, the old status to bring back.

Age status from next week again for Android

The new old status has been available since last week in a WhatsApp beta version for Android. From next week, Android users are supposed to be able to re-use the old WhatsApp status officially. IOS users have to wait a little bit longer, but should also keep the feature timely. The provider does not make a complete role backwards. Rather, new and old status functions will be available in the future in parallel.

WhatsApp users do not want a snapchat clone

The WhatsApp case impressively shows that it is not always useful for app developers to jump spasmodically to the latest trends when sacrificed functions are sacrificed. With the new status function, WhatsApp had tried to approach Snapchat. According to Instagram and the Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp is already the third app with which Facebook is trying to get a piece of the Snapchat hype. But the WhatsApp users obviously do not want another Snapcht clone, but just the messenger they know and like.

This will give you the iPhone notifications under control

You missed once again important notifications on your iPhone because they Flash again disappeared after accidental release of smartphones? With the right settings, you can prevent that. Here you'll learn all you need to know about the notifications on the iPhone.

First of all, you must add important notifications to your message center so that they are displayed even if you have already unlocked your iPhone, whether or not you want it. This option can be found here: "Settings> Messages". Now select the apps for which notifications are displayed in the message center. Make sure that the "Allow messages" and "Show in message center" check boxes are activated. In the same way, it works when you do not want to display notifications of certain programs. So you can disable the notifications for rather unimportant apps, so as not to sink into chaos.

Set a notification style for your notifications

In the next step, you can now configure the hint style in the form of banners and hints. Banners are displayed at the top of the screen, but disappear after a short time without having to activate. Notes, however, remain intact and require an active action - the preferred option for particularly important notifications. Navigate to the following menu: "Settings> Messages".

Now select the application for which you want to define a different hint style. For this to happen, the "Allow messages" option must be activated. Below are the options for the hint style. Here you can choose between "None", "Banner" and "Note". Again, you should take the opportunity to clean up a bit. Select the desired app and select "None" as a hint to continue receiving notifications for the app, but not a bold note in banner form.

Notification sound: To disable it

No question: Important messages should be signaled by a corresponding notification tone. But: Is this actually the case with every app? Do you have to accept any unimportant action on Facebook with a sound on your iPhone? In many cases probably not. Therefore you should go into yourself and check which sounds can be switched off safely. In the "Settings" under "Messages" select the respective app, for which you want to deactivate the sound. This is done by deactivating the menu item "Sounds" by slider.

Badges: How to switch the indicator counter off

The small red circles about apps and folders, the so-called badges, are a fairly practical thing. If an app has new notifications or notices ready for you, the little icon informs you about it without having to open the app before. But in everyday life, this can quickly become confusing, especially in a multitude of applications, and sometimes end in chaos. The problem: The badges only disappear when the corresponding app is started and the notifications have been called. Unfortunately, the icons can not be deactivated completely, but you can still determine for each application whether these badges should be played or not.

By the way: Apple calls the feature in its settings indicator counter. At first glance, it is unlikely to be clear what exactly is behind this description. And so you can disable the badges: "Settings> Messages". Select the desired app for which you want to disable the hints, and deactivate the "Indicator counter" item.

Summary

1. Define notifications for the message center: "Settings> Messages"
2. Select the app you want and turn "Show in Message Center" on or off
3. Set the note style: "Settings> Messages" and select the app
4. Make sure "Allow messages" is turned on
5. In the Note Style area, choose "None", "Banner", or "Note"
6. Turn sound on notifications on and off: "Settings> Messages"
7. Select the app and make your choice at the "Tones" point
8. Disable Badges: Select "Settings> Messages" and the app
9. Turn slider to uncheck the red badges

How Snapchat: Facebook Messenger gets Stories feature

After Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp, the Facebook Messenger now has a Stories function. Facebook calls the feature "Messenger Day", the ingredients are however old-tried. Users can use images, videos, and other gimmicks for status. The Stories feature comes with the latest software update on iPhones and Android smartphones.

A brand-new status is part of the good tone - and now with Facebook Messenger. (© Facebook 2017)

Facebook has officially announced its new feature "Messenger Day", after first reports already pointed out last fall on the function. Users of the app can set a status and visualize it with photos, videos and other effects - a feature that once made Snapchat with Stories really salonable. There is no restriction on the number of pictures, since they only last 24 hours. The status can be shared with all friends or with selected contacts.

Facebook Messenger: Latest update for Stories feature required

If the Facebook Messenger software is up to date, the feature can be reached after launching the app via the camera button. After recording an image or video, the work can be refined with effects, but an Emoji button is available. Whether drawing, texts or stickers - the creativity is almost unlimited. The result can then be stored in the Day area and shared with other friends. Even content from chats can easily be transferred to the new area.

The new status is so far only for the Facebook Messenger intended, but not for the Facebook app itself. Whether this will follow a later date remains to be seen.

Apple intentionally destroyed FaceTime in iOS 6

In the US, many users are taking legal action against Apple. They are accusing the company of deliberately destroying the FaceTime app for iOS 6 to force iPhone users to switch to iOS 7. The background is to be a patent dispute from 2012.

In the US, Apple is currently facing a new lawsuit. In it, several users propose to the company to have made the video chat app FaceTime 2014 in iOS 6 unused by an artificially generated bug. In this way, the company would have forced numerous iPhone owners to upgrade to iOS 7, as reported by AppleInsider. Especially on older iPhones like the models 4 and 4s, however, this resulted in sensitive performance losses.

The consequences of an old patent dispute

Background is apparently a patent dispute from 2012. Last year, the iPhone manufacturer was sentenced to a compensation payment of 302 million US dollars, because Apple for FaceTime had apparently violated a patent of the security company VirnetX. To circumvent further complaints, Apple had to outsource the data transmission of FaceTime chats to external servers of the provider Akamai, which however would have cost the service to unimagined heights. In 2013 alone the server costs the group about 50 million US dollar had tasted.

From 2014 Apple developed a new FaceTime app for iOS 7, where the data no longer had to be transferred via external servers. In order to completely bypass the server costs, the group is supposed to have lambed the "old" FaceTime app for iOS 6 deliberately with an artificially introduced bug, according to the application, to the users to switch to iOS 7 and thus also to the new FaceTime app too to force. In support of their complaint, the plaintiffs have submitted several emails from Apple employees to prove that FaceTime was intentionally destroyed in iOS 6. How the process could ultimately end, is still completely unclear at the moment.

Sony released news app for PlayStation owners

Sony also now has its own messenger app. The Japanese electronics company has released a chat program, with which one in its PlayStation Network Friends List chatting with the contacts and can exchange information.

The new Messenger app "PlayStation Messages" from Sony's currently in versions for Android and iOS. However, you need the complete PlayStation app to really retrieve his PSN account online can - including the friends list. But you can as well as the Facebook Messenger between the Apps jump back and forth with Tabbed Browsing and use of the respective functions. Therefore, the new Messenger app only together with the actual PlayStation App usefully employed.

PlayStation Messenger: all messages functions inside
All functions that have something to do with messages that can be found in the new program. One can for example see at a glance who is online and already looking forward to the home to exciting games, if the PlayStation still not running. It is also possible to send voice messages or images - even in groups of up to 100 players.

In addition, Sony has released an update for the actual PlayStation App. This now has a new icon, but is still not optimized for iPhone 6s. Whether Sony can enforce with its Messenger app will show in the coming months. Those that use the Sony already Cruises likely, can start with the new Messenger something to send messages to their PlayStation buddy. All the others are probably best-supplied with WhatsApp and other chat programs.