WeChat 5.2: Taking Up the Ante for Social Scenes with 6 New Features

WeChat’s 5.2 upgrade for Android and iOS makes my socializing a lot easier and more fun. With the 6 features added, finding my friends and interacting with them is a breeze!

Convenience is the keyword with WeChat’s new MENU BAR. An OCD approved menu bar with 3 main components: Chats, Discover and Contacts. Chats lets me continue with my current conversation, Discover takes me to my favorite features such as Games, Moments, Scan QR Code, Shake, People Nearby, Drift Bottle, Games, and Sticker Shop. Contacts give me quick access to my friends.

And here’s my favorite among the six: FRIEND RADAR

Hindi ba ang saya kung bigla mo na lang makikita ang friend mo sa isang lugar? Like last week, I saw Tina at Taal Vista (instant meet up! Haha) Imagined if your friend is on the same place pero hindi kayo nagkita? Nakakahinayang di ba? Now, with WeChat’s Friend Radar feature can automatically identify other users within the vicinity and give you the option to add them to your contact list with one tap of their images.

How to access Friend Radar?

 

Here’s another one that I like from the new 6 features added: REAL-TIME LOCATION-SHARING

This is very helpful when you are planning a meet up, a shopping trip or bazaar hopping with your friends. Coordinate your location and the place where you will meet, you can also invite your friends to share where they are and help them navigate their way on the WeChat map and through an integrated walkie-talkie session. Simply open a chat > + > Locations > Real-time Location > to view one another’s maps.

GROUP CHAT PHOTO ALBUM

You can share your barkada photos on your group chat and easily access it through one tap of the Photo Album icon.

WeChat’s 5.2 Group Chat Photo Album, photos shared in your group chat—whether for skating trips in the metro or diving sessions at Palawan—are arranged by date and then stored in one location

UNIVERSAL SEARCH

With WeChat’s Universal Search feature is very helpful, especially for people like me! With so many things going on, anything that will make my life easier is a welcome treat. I don’t need to scroll all the chats I had just to look for something that I forgot, all I need is to use this feature.

The last but not the least, CONTACT LIST CUSTOMIZATION, WeChat’s 5.2 feature that lets you manage your network.

This feature gives you the option to add photos, addresses and business cards to your friends’ profiles.

Apart from these updates, WeChat 5.2 for Android also comes with enhanced versions of its staple features.

• Group Chat Mention Notifications
• LinkedIn Account in WeChat
• More animated stickers at Sticker Shop

All of this, complemented with the new, easy-to-use interface means more possibilities for your social life. To upgrade now and for the latest updates, visit www.wechat.com.

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About WeChat

WeChat envisions and innovates new ways for people to connect, communicate and share. A mobile social communication app designed for smartphone users, WeChat is the world’s fastest growing social app with over 100 million registered accounts internationally.

WeChat empowers users in fun and dynamic ways by bringing together messaging, social communication and gaming in one seamless, interactive experience, with comprehensive privacy and security settings that can be tailored as needed.

WeChat is an all-in-one app that enables users to add friends with several innovative features. These include highly convenient and reliable QR code scanning, phonebook and location-based connection services such as “Hold Together”, “People Nearby” and “Shake.” The platform facilitates social interaction with real-time “Walkie Talkie,” “Voice Call,” and “Video Call.” Supported on data networks and Wi-Fi, WeChat makes it easy to stay connected with friends anywhere, anytime. Users can choose to communicate and share photos one-on-one, or within their closed social network through “Moments”. The popular WeChat Sticker Shop has a variety of fun animated emoticons to express any emotion. Also, with a host of addictive WeChat Games, users can play and challenge their friends on the move, share scores and even find competitors nearby.

WeChat is available free for download on Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian and Windows operating systems.

Learn more about WeChat and download the app at www.wechat.com

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