Have you started to compete with your friends in the circle of friends? Experience the new version of WeChat: A comprehensive review of new features

On December 23, 2019, WeChat released a new version 7.0.9.

This time, WeChat's quiet update brought many important upgrades, including the custom emoticon function to enrich the life of the Moments, the Moments permission setting to reject the "screen-spamming party", the forwarding icon setting that allows you to identify the source of the article at a glance, and the extension of the video length of the Moments to 30 seconds, as well as many visual optimizations of the interface and icons.

After the editor's carpet-style comparison, I have discovered most of the improvements, big and small, that can be seen by the naked eye.

After a brief spoiler, let’s learn from the editor in detail what improvements are worth noting in WeChat version 7.0.9~

The first improvement: related to Moments comments

In the past, comments on WeChat Moments could only be made using text or WeChat-specified emojis, and the maximum number of likes was one.

Of course, netizens’ imagination is endless, and the simple comment function in the circle of friends can be used to play various ways of stacking buildings.

Since WeChat version 7.0.9, WeChat Moments officially supports emojis. In addition, it supports custom emojis and animated emojis (GIF emojis)!

WeChat 7.0.9 makes sending dynamic emoticons as easy as chatting

WeChat version 7.0.9 starts to support dynamic emojis

If there is any regret, it is that you can only post one unofficial emoticon pack at a time. In simple terms, you can only post one animated picture at a time.

In fact, there was a very embarrassing thing in the comments of Moments before. A person posted something very sad and needed comfort in Moments.

Many people think that the love symbol for a like is equivalent to the "hug" expression.

The editor kindly reminds you that if you want to post custom emoticons in Moments, you must first add them to the custom emoticons

The second improvement: related to Moments videos

This can be said to be one of the major updates of WeChat this year. The maximum length of videos that can be posted in Moments is 30 seconds!

As usual, select a video when posting to Moments on WeChat.

If your video is longer than 15 seconds, there will be a "Post a 30-second video with Weishi" button in the upper right corner of WeChat. You can edit and beautify the video according to the prompts, and then click "Publish and Sync to Moments". After a while, your video will be posted to WeChat Moments.

Warm reminder, when you open Weishi through WeChat and send 30 videos, by default they will only be sent to WeChat Moments and will not be sent to external parties in Weishi.

If you want to make the video public on Weishi, you need to uncheck "Only visible to you in Weishi".

The editor has to sigh that before May this year, people could only post 10-second videos on Moments, and after that only 15-second videos. In less than half a year, 30-second videos can now be posted. It seems that one-minute short videos may be a big event next year (looking forward to it).

The third improvement: related to adding friends

In the past, when adding a friend, there would be the awkward situation of whether or not to let him see your Moments.

Now with 7.0.9, before adding friends to WeChat Moments, you can set the other party's permissions, whether to chat only, chat, Moments, WeChat Sports, etc. You can also choose "Don't let him (her) see" or "Don't see him (her)" for Moments updates.

WeChat 7.0.9 new version can directly set friend permissions

The editor feels that the greatest significance may be that if you know in advance that you want to add a WeChat businessman who posts N advertisements a day as a friend, you can block the other party’s circle of friends in advance! In a sense, it is equivalent to clearing the six senses in advance!

Of course, in addition to the function button that allows you to ignore the other person’s circle of friends, the new interface for adding friends is also different from the past, it is more user-friendly and more beautiful.

What's even more considerate is that when someone adds you as a friend and there is something wrong with the other party's account, a red message will appear in the text section of the application: "The other party does not have friends who are in regular contact. It is recommended to verify the other party's identity before passing the verification." If you choose to continue adding the other party as a friend, WeChat will block the other party's circle of friends by default.

The fourth improvement: related to forwarding public account articles

When forwarding an article from a public account, the public account’s icon and name will be included.

By forwarding an article, the other party can see which public account the article comes from. This is beneficial to the brand promotion of the public account and helps users judge the credibility of the article. For example, if the article comes from Xinhua News Agency, the credibility of the article will be greatly improved. However, if it comes from some small account that specializes in counterfeiting goods and fake drugs, then the credibility of the article will naturally be greatly reduced.

Final Thoughts

There will be some improvements with every upgrade of WeChat, and the newly added features are small and beautiful, but they meet the most basic needs of users.

Of course, even if you continue to use WeChat, if you don’t watch it carefully and don’t use it often, you may not notice any major changes within a year.

Now back to the topic, the iOS and Android versions of WeChat 7.0.9 are now officially launched. If you want to try it out first, hurry up and manually upgrade!