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Cut the chit-chat and gather around to learn the latest about everyone's favorite super-app in our ongoing column, What's New WeChat.
Rejoice, ye sticky scoundrels! Gone are the days of tedious sticker deletion, when we were denied even the thought of organizing our carefully curated selection of 300 gifs.
Tap and hold stickers to move them to the front or delete them
With the latest update, WeChat has finally implemented an easy-to-use "Move to Front" option. Whereas previously, pressing and holding on a sticker in your saved collection would magnify the sticker until you remove your finger, the magnification pop-up now persists when you let go. Below the pop-up, the option to “Move to Front” is on the left, while "delete" is on the right, thus doing away with the need to go into the "Manage" section to delete stickers, which can be accessed by pressing the plus symbol at the beginning of your sticker collection.
Fancy and unnecessary
Less functionally, the update also revamps the visuals for voice-messages, giving a slightly improved experience to those who feel they are entitled to make you listen to their voice.
Unfortunately, the actual conversion function has not been updated to support non-Mandarin languages, despite the fact that voice-to-text function in mobile WeChat works perfectly well for English. Strangely enough, the PC conversion will actually recognize most English words but will fail to add spaces between them.
Voice chat conversion has not been optimized for English
No more in-text quotes
The digital currency being developed by China’s Central Bank appears to have moved into the testing phase, and screenshots of the app that will be used to convert and trade the virtual RMB have been shared across social media.
Screenshots of the app were shared on social media
Testing is now underway in four major Chinese cities, and while Beijingers, unfortunately, will not join in on the tests, the Xiong'an New Area, which serves as the central area of the Jing-Jin-Ji super metropolis, has made the list, along with Chengdu, Suzhou, and tech capital Shenzhen.
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Images: Bloomberg, Joey Knotts, Ling Zhang (via Twitter)
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