WhatsApp: New Features and Updates WhatsApp Introduced in 2018 Ankit Chawla, 31 July 2018 WhatsApp has made a lot of improvements to its messaging platform in 2018 HIGHLIGHTS WhatsApp Payments is based on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) Forwarding restrictions are currently being tested in India Group admins now have extensive controls WhatsApp started the year with a bang, with the user base hitting 1.5 billion monthly active users. Since then its year has been pretty eventful, what with launching or testing new features with high frequency. Of course, fake news - the bane of many a social media platform - has become a pain point for WhatsApp too. So it came as no surprise when the company announced it is testing measures to curb the menace. But that's not the only new WhatsApp feature being tested right now - in fact, just today the group calling feature was rolled out globally, after being in testing for several weeks. Here's a rundown of all the new features that the ...