

However, WhatsApp does allow users to disable "last seen" - but it is not clear whether Viber also offers a similar window to disable it.


Similarly, now Viber also shows the last seen of your contacts. The last seen timestamp, feature is the similar to the timestamp feature on WhatsApp, which shows the "last seen" for a user. Sadly, no matter how innovative Viber is, WhatsApp takes the cake for being the most popular instant messaging app.Īdditionaly, the update also brings online status and last seen timestamp for your contacts on Viber. Culture & Lifestyle OctoViber Reviews: What Users Are Saying About Us By Nathalie Cohen-Sheffer We’ve already introduced you to some of the people working at Viber, including our very own sticker team, who create the stickers you can’t get enough of, as well as the support team who offer 24/7 services. With this feature, Viber has yet again proved that it is way ahead of WhatsApp who is yet to bring this inline video playback functionality onboard. The video playback is not limited to the thumbnail size, users can also expand the view, and also pause the video whenever they wish.Įarlier, Viber used to load YouTube videos on a browser that used to take some time. Now you can watch YouTube video on Viber without leaving the chat box. iOS users will instead receive a notification when a participant takes a screenshot of the conversation.As you can spot in the screenshots above, the update does a major favor to Viber by offering YouTube support.

Other security features are included which will prevent participants in a conversation from forwarding messages and even prevent screenshots but this feature will only be available on Android due to iOS limits. This new feature will be released for Viber on iOS and Android later this week. It will be up to the participants to decide whether they want the conversation locked behind a PIN or want it to disappear on its own. It could be a one-on-one conversation or a group chat. Viber is now kicking things up a notch with the secret chats feature which will enable entire conversations to delete themselves after a select period of time. If the recipient takes a screenshot, you get a notification. You send a photo or video and assign a time limit after which it automatically disappears. Viber’s initial feature might have been very similar to how Snapchat does things. It’s going to introduce a secret chats feature later this week which will have an additional layer of privacy as these chats will prevent screenshots and messages will delete themselves automatically. The company recently announced a new feature for its service which enables users to set time-limits for how long a photo and video will be visible inside a conversation. Viber is one of the many popular cross-platform messaging services out there.
