Wednesday 17 February 2021
«Lost speech call. January 1, 1970 ». There are many WhatsApp users who have been worried to see this message in their chats. Confused, published it on their social networks or have commented among their acquaintances. According to the date registered by the application itself, as if it were a trip to the past, the group calls were registered with this date.
But in this case the mystery has a rational explanation and has revealed the application of the messages why the error is due after investigating it.
The application has ensured that it is a harmless failure in how the date in losses was calculated without connection, and has emphasized that it has affected users who received speech calls while they were not connected, as the company reported in a statement. The problem of 1970 data on WhatsApp is due to the use of the UNIX control systemA system that many organizations use according to the company. Unix was made in 1969, in which the date is explained to users.
Whastapp has also announced that this has not meant a security problem or endangered user data or their devices. The problem has already been solved and disappears when the last update is installed.
New functions in 2021
This 2021 is planning to add the following options:
1. Different devices.
The application test that the same account can be used at the same time in different “smartphones” or tablets, although the 4 will be exceeded at the same time at the same time.
2. Holiday mode.
The app is already one Silence -mode for connected or groups and also the action to archive them. However, when one of our archived contacts writes, the message appears on the chat screen again. This is something that WhatsApp intends to avoid with a new option.
The way you want to implement is a way to leave ‘vacations’.
3. VideoLAMAR on the computer
The messaging application works in particular so that it is also possible to make video calls or dry calls via the computer version and not just in the mobile version.
4. Videos and photos that self -granted
With the new WhatsApp function you can send messages that will arrange, something that the platform has baptized as “temporary messages”. Although the date on which this new tool will be implemented, when users can decide whether they can activate it or not, so that the messages that they disappear automatically after a few days are unknown. In the beginning, the time that passes until they are eliminated seven days and it is not known whether this interval can be changed. Moreover, this does not affect the messages sent or received prior to the arrival of this new configuration.
5. New conditions
WhatsApp will update its terms of use in 2021. To continue to use the application, it is necessary to accept them.
