Now you can play YouTube videos right inside WhatsApp

With WhatsApp, you can finally watch videos with your friends.

The messaging platform has rolled out a new update to its iOS app that will allow users to play YouTube videos within the app itself, Hindustan Times reports.  

Now, when you receive a YouTube link and click on it, the video will play in WhatsApp. Before, the video would open in the YouTube app or a browser.

You can also keep playing the video while you navigate to another chat, with a feature that WhatsApp refers to as “picture-in-picture.” 

The feature is not yet enabled, but WhatsApp news website WABetaInfo believes it will begin working tonight (though it’s unclear where it got the timeframe info). Read more…

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