WeChat update! You can finally block group chats

Hello my friends. I just had a day off yesterday and came to work again today. I didn’t feel like writing any articles at all. I just browsed the App Store out of boredom.

I didn’t expect to find that WeChat has just updated to version 8.0.14. And unlike the usual style in the past, the update details this time did not say "solve some existing problems", but instead said "you can turn on [Caring Mode]".

Seeing this caring mode, Shichao immediately clicked on the update without saying anything. Because recently many apps have launched similar elderly-friendly versions with much simpler functions. These versions originally intended for the elderly have unexpectedly become popular among young people.

For example, Shichao has been trying out the large-font version of Weibo recently, which only retains the basic functions and removes all the fancy features. Except for the large font size that makes your eyes swollen after reading it for a long time, the overall experience is much more comfortable than the original Weibo version.

However, after experiencing WeChat's care mode, Shichao found that apart from the font becoming extra large, there was no difference in functionality from the original version.

If there is any difference between its caring mode and simply enlarging the text, it may be that the color is deepened.

Emm, although this caring mode is a bit disappointing, Shichao discovered that a new folding group function has been added to the group chat settings page.

The collapsed group chat will disappear from the chat panel and be put into a conversation called [Collapsed Group Chat].

Wow, isn't this a bit like QQ's group assistant function? Although the function seems familiar, Shichao thinks it is really practical. Because the folded group is not only hidden in the [folded group window], but this window will not be pushed up by new messages.

Instead, it is fixed at the 12th position in the chat list (may vary depending on the model).

Shichao tested it with an iPhone 11, and found that a page can display up to 11 chat windows. So unless you scroll down, you can't see the folded group chat. This can be said to meet the group chat bottom function that everyone strongly requested. This time WeChat has another update, which is very well optimized.

If you have used the previous two versions of WeChat forwarding function, you must have been fooled by the “Recently Forwarded” function.

For example, you are chatting with friend A on WeChat. At this time, you see some good pictures in the friend group and want to share them with A. Then you long-press the message to forward it. As a result, the person who appears at the top of the forwarding list is not A, who you are chatting with, but the person you forwarded to last time: your leader. Then you click on it habitually.

This story is not made up by Shichao, and if you do a random search on the Internet, you can see many netizens complaining about this function.

However, after this WeChat update, [Recent Forwards] was made into a horizontal list, and the avatars were enlarged to distinguish it from [Recent Chats].

I think this update is pretty good, because compared to before, we will not be so easy to forward messages to the wrong person, and at the same time, the recent forwarding function is retained. This [Recently forwarded] also appears when forwarding articles, and sharing articles should be faster in the future.

In addition, a new item, [Music], has been added to the function menu of the WeChat chat window.

After clicking and entering the name of the song, you can share it directly with your friends.

However, Shichao thinks this thing is not very useful. After all, we usually only choose to share songs when we are inspired by the songs while listening to them. At that time, we would share them directly from the music listening software instead of searching in the music function of WeChat.

In addition, Shichao discovered that after updating to 8.0.14, the reminder switches for Moments and Video Account could not be found.

The switch here can control whether you will receive a red dot notification when your Moments are updated. Later, Shichao searched for a long time before finding that they were all moved to [Me-Settings-General-Discovery Page Management], and the entire interface has also been updated.

Now, we can manage all functions with notifications in this interface [Display and Notification]. Anyway, except for Moments, all other functions are turned off. The above are the new features of WeChat 8.0.14. Overall, I think this update is good.

If you still send messages to the wrong people because of "recent forwarding". If you don't want to see those group chats that make you upset. Then Shichao recommends that you upgrade to the latest version of WeChat. By the way, the above introductions are all new features of iOS WeChat version 8.0.14. As of press time, Android WeChat version 8.0.14 currently only has a care mode.