«Breaking News» WhatsApp will now rank your friends in feed determined by how much you talk to your friends

WhatsApp will now rank your friends in order of how often you interact and the type of content you share with them.

As the name suggests, the new Ranking feature will automatically arrange your contact list by pushing your 'favourite' friend's status updates to the top of your list.

Status updates published by the contact with the highest ranking will always be at the top of the list, so you will quickly be able to find your favorite status updates.

The data will be used in the Status section of the app and monitor your activity with friends, showing you updates from the friends it thinks you want to see at the top.

This means people you frequently ignore or rarely interact with on the messaging app will be moved to the bottom of the list.   

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WhatsApp will introduce a new feature which is now being tested on the iPhone, which will automatically rank your friends in order of who you most interact with 

According to WABetaInfo, the algorithm analyzes various elements including how much you chat, whether you are in the same WhatsApp groups and the amount you mention them to others. 

The data also assumes that a person you frequently call is someone you care a great deal  about and so their ranking will go up.

Rankings will be determined by your phone locally meaning that if you delete the app or change phone, it will return to a chronological layout while it re-learns your favourite people. 

WhatsApp is just rolling out the feature today for any IOS user who has the version 2.18.102.4 beta installed.

The picture shows the old version, left, which listed updates in chronological order and the right, the new way which will show your 'favourite' contacts first 

This algorithm is very similar to the one adopted by Instagram which amassed many complaints from users because they wanted to see posts from people in order of when it was posted.  

In 2015, the company quietly introduced a new feature which allowed users to see who they spoke to most by going into the settings option and clicking the storage usage down at the bottom. 

This shows the total number of messages you have sent and received at the bottom, as well as a breakdown of the number in each conversation from high to low.

The feature has been just enabled today, it should take time before WhatsApp is able to rank all your contacts, so you should still see the status list in chronological order.

WHATSAPP: WHICH PHONES WILL LOSE CHAT APP SUPPORT NEXT?

WhatsApp has confirmed plans to drop support for Nokia S40 in December 2018, and iOS 7 and Android Gingerbread in February 2020.

After this deadline, WhatsApp users will no longer be able to send or receive text messages, voice or video calls within the popular chat app.

As a result, WhatsApp users with an iPhone 4 or older will be forced to either upgrade to a new phone, or find an alternative to the world’s most popular chat app.

WhatsApp has set the same deadline for Android smartphone owners running version 2.3.7 and older, known as ‘Gingerbread’.

Following the announcement of the end of support, WhatsApp stopped new users setting up an account with the messaging service on either iOS 7 or Android Gingerbread handsets.

Existing accounts can send and receive messages until the end of support date.

However, WhatsApp has warned that some features could stop working at any time between now and the final deadline in early 2020.

Handsets that will no longer support WhatsApp after February 2020 

• iPhone


• iPhone 3G


• iPhone 3GS


• iPhone 4


• Google Nexus One 


• Samsung Galaxy S 


• HTC Desire HD


• HTC Wildfire


• HTC Wildfire S


• Sony Xperia X10


• Sony Xperia Arc

This list is not exhaustive. Any Android-powered smartphones running version 2.3.7 and older will stop working on 1 February 2020.

WhatsApp users with an iPhone 4S or older will be forced to either upgrade to a new phone, or find an alternative to the world’s most popular chat app 

WhatsApp periodically drops support for older operating systems so that it can guarantee its entire user base enjoys the same experience and features.

As the messaging service adds new functionality to its app, it is sometimes unable to replicate these features on smartphone running outdated operating systems.

On January 1 2018, WhatsApp removed support for phones running BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone 8.0, leaving these users unable to download the app, send or receive texts.

The Menlo Park-based developer has previously dropped support for —

• Android versions older than 2.3.3


• Windows Phone 8.0 and older 


• iPhone 3GS/iOS 6 


• Nokia Symbian S60 

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