WhatsApp's developers are a little unpredictable. Sometimes, all it takes them is one swift update to add a ton of features, other times, they dabble painfully slowly with dozens upon dozens of beta releases until they get a small feature ready (Google Drive backup anyone?). But credit goes to them for keeping us on our toes and entertained with their small incremental updates, like this new version for example.

WhatsApp 2.12.312, which you can grab from the site's beta uploads page or from APK Mirror, has added a new rich link preview option. However, the feature is still very half-baked, so don't expect anything like Telegram's previews just yet.

If you're on 2.12.312, when you finish typing a URL, you will see a small preview window with the title of the page you're trying to share, an image or icon if applicable, and the URL below it. Unfortunately, when you send these full previews, the recipients won't see them even if they're on 2.12.312. Likewise, if someone sends you a link with a rich preview, you will only see the URL. It seems that the feature has only been activated on the sending side and will need further updates to work on the recipient's end.





For now, rich previews appear to only work on regular URLs. They don't activate on image links, which is where you would appreciate them even more. And they're limited to small snippets, so if you share an Instagram link you'll only get the image's caption if you're lucky, and if you share a link to a tweet you'll just see the first few words.

As with any new WhatsApp beta feature, we expect to see a few different iterations and quick updates until the functionality is fully developed and ready for primetime use. In the meantime, you can still grab v 2.12.312 from APK Mirror to get an idea of what to expect in the future.

Source: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/10/14/whatsapp-2-12-312-starts-showing-rich-previews-for-shared-urls/

Android users, always get the new version of whatsapp via this link http://whatsapp.com/android

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feel honored as I have been using this for a month now

Just like Facebook, once you post a link a short preview comes with. whatsapp is now a subsidiary of Facebook so this new feature is expected.

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This will be very good for branding

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It's been on FB for a while..

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Telegram already has it with much more greater features. Whatsapp will get there Sha

We already had it on Telegram since 1867.

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