The opinions that arose as a result of WhatsApp introducing the new state modality on February 21 have been endless. We have seen how many users criticized this turn of the application by eliminating the possibility of writing a sentence in their states and leaving only the option to share a photo or video with a duration of 24 hours, that is ephemeral content Instagram style and previously seen on Snapchat.
There are many new options that the app has included over time, but in this case the amount of criticism and complaints has not left indifferent to its workers and all this has made WhatsApp act quickly and has updated the app with a version in which the coexistence of the old states with the new ones is possible . If yes as you are reading it, the old states are back and surely to stay.
How to use the old states in WhatsApp
If you want to have the possibility of using the old WhatsApp states in coexistence with the new ones, pay attention to the steps that we tell you below.
The first thing you should know is that at the moment it is a Beta version so you must be a beta tester to use it. Being a beta tester is very simple and will allow us to test previous versions of Android applications before they become official.
How to be a beta tester
Once we have become beta testers and downloaded the beta version of WhatsApp (in this case specifically 2.17.95) we can verify what this update offers. In case you already have the beta version, we can update it from the Play Store.
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Another option is that we download the version directly from APKmirror and install it manually.
APKmirror
The steps we must follow to see the ancient states are the following:
- Settings
- You select in the symbol of your image
As we can see, again the possibility of writing a sentence and putting emojis appears as in previous versions. In this case we will see that the name of the states section has been replaced by “About and phone number”. The functionality is the same as before and also use. If we click on this text, we will see the drop-down menu that we saw before to be able to select the phrase that interests us or write our own. What we write will be visible under our name in the list of contacts that have our WhatsApp.
We can see how the modality of the new “States” continues to appear in our main chat menu and we can continue using them in the same way. At the moment it seems that it stays for all those who want to use it.
Finally in this new version we have been able to find the odd news. One of them is that we have seen how the tab to attach files, images etc has changed places and in this version we will see it at the bottom. Right next to the microphone. If we press it we will see the same options unfold as before but if we do not know about this change, we may go a little crazy when we look for it at the top as usual.
In this way WhatsApp tries to solve all the problems and complaints that have arisen with the turn to its states and to be able to satisfy in this way but to all, the majority of its users. And you do you think?
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