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A new breaking news feature added to YouTube

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YouTube can be said as the most extensive video sharing platform online without any doubt. The search engine giant Google has been constantly putting in efforts into this most popular video sharing website for giving its users a great user experience.

Billions of users every day spend a lot of their time every day watching videos on this video sharing platform. Videos vary from music videos to movies and tv series and much more depending on the tastes of the users.

And the recently introduced feature on YouTube is the breaking news feature.

With this feature, the video-sharing website has made a new breaking news section available on the home page of the Android application and website version as well. This section brings together a collection of videos that show the breaking news from all over the world. Another most important and interestingly noticeable change YouTube has made to its popular video sharing platform is it is showing suggestions of videos based on the geographical location of the user.

But the popular video sharing website hasn’t made any announcement regarding this newly introduced option which makes think a bit about the feature, whether it is a temporary one or a permanent one. However, this option is very much useful and there is an option to hide this section as well if the users don’t wish to have it on their homepage.

You can find this newly added option in the latest versions of the iOS and Android apps. So, make sure you have an updated application and enjoy the feature.

How to use WhatsApp’s new status feature

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WhatsApp, the most popular messaging application which is very continuously releasing various much-needed features to its application that has been appreciated by various people around the globe has now recently launched an update. It is the status update feature which is very much similar to the stories feature in Instagram and Snapchat. Introducing this feature, WhatsApp has released an update with which it removed the old status where the users used to post text as their status.

How to create/update status:

  • Open the WhatsApp, tap on Status, and then click on My Status
  • Now click on the Plus icon on the top right corner of the app screen.
  • You can select the photos and videos that you want from your gallery or you can even take photo by tapping on the button and hold it to take a video
  • Add a caption or message by clicking on the add caption option and tap on the send button.

That is it, you are done with updating your status and you can check how many people viewed your status by clicking on the menu button on the right side of it. This status will be automatically deleted in 24 hours.

You can change the Privacy settings of your status by going to status tab and click on the three dots icon and then on the Status Privacy option. Here you can find three options My contacts – where the status will be shared with all of your contacts, My contacts except – where you can share your status with your contacts by excepting a few people, Only share with – where you can share your status with only a few people.