After this wave of updates, WeChat can finally upload complete original videos?

WeChat has recently launched a wave of incremental updates, upgrading some very practical functions without anyone noticing. These new gadgets are also quite practical. Today, Shichao will introduce them to you as usual.

Six new emoticons

I believe everyone has discovered that six new funny emojis have been added to the WeChat emoji list, namely "rolling eyes", "666", "let me see", "sigh", "bitter" and "cracked".

From a usage perspective, these newly added emoticons provide a new way to deal with awkward moments when words don’t quite make the point during a chat.

For example, when you don’t know how to comment on some negative news but have to say it, you can send a "sigh" expression, and the emotion of helplessness in the face of the decline of morals in the world will naturally be revealed.

Or maybe you are pinned to the ground by the client for a long time, and suddenly at four in the morning you are told that the plan has been finalized. When you are too tired to type, you have a "bitter" expression, that kind of sad feeling of "how easy is it for me?" Needless to say, dddd (those who understand will understand).

The most puzzling thing is this magical expression of covering the face with hands and saying "Let me see". At first, Shichao thought that this gesture was the greeting gesture in Star Trek put on the face, and it might have some special second-year meaning.

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But the official WeChat account quickly gave the standard answer. In fact, the source of this emoticon was the version of the Fifth Prince played by Su Youpeng. This operation of changing the real-life emoticon package to a yellow-faced emoticon can be said to be very impressive.

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And that “smile” expression that the young and the old always use with two meanings, this time it cracked!

At present, Shichao has not found any particularly suitable usage scenarios.

I always feel that after I send this out, I might make my girlfriend angry if I’m not careful.

WeChat finally stops suppressing videos and pictures

Speaking of the problem of compressing pictures and videos on WeChat, Shichao has really suffered from it for a long time. Every time he finishes shooting a video, he wants to send the original film to his friends via WeChat. He can only import it into the computer and make a compressed package. Otherwise, the video received by the other party will be the version that has been "negatively optimized" by WeChat.

After this update, as long as the video file is less than 200M, you can directly select "Mobile Album" in "File", and you don’t have to worry about the pictures or videos sent from it being compressed.

At the same time, the new file manager can also search for sent and received files based on time. For friends who often use WeChat for work, they no longer have to look around the world for a file sent a few months ago.

Currently, this feature is available on the iOS version of WeChat, and the Android version will be updated later. If WeChat is so unethical as to lift the 200M limit, QQ will probably be used even less often.

Topics with # can be used as hyperlinks

This function is similar to the hashtag function of Weibo and Twitter, and WeChat has integrated it into the chat process.

The purpose of WeChat's setting is actually not difficult to understand. In essence, after the tag forms a hyperlink, it is bundled with the search function of the WeChat background, which can jump more directly to the official account, video account, mini program, etc.

However, at this stage, WeChat’s topic tags should only be a traffic entry point, which is slightly inferior to the function of Weibo topics.

Finally, there is a function that WeChat has secretly launched. Now there is a way to withdraw money from WeChat Pay for free, but you need to use WeChat Pay to earn gold coins, and then use these gold coins to redeem free withdrawal coupons of a certain amount.

The way to collect coins is a bit like Alipay's Ant Forest▼

WeChat does this to encourage people to use WeChat change more often for payment. However, if you want to transfer large amounts of WeChat change to a bank card in the future, there is at least one more solution to the problem of handling fees.

In general, this update of WeChat solved some problems and added some new features, but there is still no sign of killer feature updates like the "voice progress bar".

When using WeChat recently, have you encountered any "pain points" that you feel must be changed? You are also welcome to leave your comments and share your thoughts with Shichao.