Have you ever seen a beautiful picture on your phone and wanted to print it out immediately, but it took a long time to do so? This current problem now has a solution. WeChat has recently quietly upgraded. It can actually call the printer with one click on the picture preview interface, eliminating the tedious steps of saving first and then operating. This may seem like a trivial change, but it has greatly improved daily printing efficiency.
New path for image printing
Previously, if you wanted to print out the photos contained in WeChat for 16personalities testing , the process was quite cumbersome and tortuous. To long press the picture, then choose to save it to the mobile phone album, then exit the WeChat application. After finding the corresponding picture in the album, use the picture application or file manager to find the printing option. These many continuous operation instructions are extremely inefficient and inconvenient to operate when faced with an emergency or when there is an urgent need to quickly share physical photos.
At this point, the path is significantly shortened. Click on the large image preview of any picture in WeChat, click on the "…" menu in the upper right corner, and you will find that a new "Print" option has been added. After clicking, the system will automatically call the connected printer to start printing. This feature currently relies on operating system-level printing services and has good support for wireless printers at home or in the office.
Group message do not disturb optimization
The bombardment of WeChat group messages, which brings a lot of trouble to people, makes people feel extremely annoyed, but they are also afraid of missing out on vital information. WeChat has implemented restructuring measures for the previous "Following Group Members" function, changing it into a more intuitive "The following messages will still be notified". Users can individually control whether the three types of messages "@me", "@everyone" and "group announcement" trigger notifications in the group settings.
This means that you can completely "mute" a group chat while ensuring that key information is not lost. For example, in a work group, you can turn off all notifications for ordinary chats and only leave @you message reminders. Such an adjustment returns the control of Do Not Disturb to the user in a more refined manner, achieving flexible management and control of "quiet when it needs to be quiet, and ring when it needs to ring".
Message recall function upgrade
Sending incorrect messages is a common embarrassing situation in social media, especially when multiple incorrect messages are sent one after another. In the past, WeChat's withdrawal mechanism only operated on a single message. To withdraw multiple messages, you had to click repeatedly. The whole process was complicated and trivial, and it was easy for omissions to occur. The new version of WeChat has made key improvements to address this situation.
When in the chat interface, press and hold the message that has been sent, and then select to withdraw, a new option will be added to the interface. This option is "Withdraw all messages sent this time". What can be achieved by selecting this option is that all the messages sent continuously this time can be recalled at once. There is content to be withdrawn, which includes text, pictures, and voice. There is a time limit for this function. This limit must be performed within 2 minutes after the message is sent. This balances the requirements for error correction and the continuity of the chat.
Popularity of chat record management
The "Chat Record Migration and Backup" function was originally scattered, but was integrated into "Chat Record Management" by WeChat! Mobile phone storage space is running out, and chat history is one of the “culprits”! This feature, which was originally only tested on iOS, is now fully available on the Android platform!
The entrance can be found by the user in "Me – Settings – Chat", which is divided into two large modules: "Import and Export" and "Backup and Restore". The former is used to directly transfer records between devices, while the latter allows recording to be backed up to external storage devices such as computers, thus providing an official solution for "downsizing" or switching to a mobile phone.
The logic behind feature updates
Those seemingly scattered updates are actually aimed at WeChat’s core goal of improving efficiency and user experience. One-click printing reduces the friction caused by cross-application operations. The detailed MBTI personality test of message management gives users more control. Batch withdrawal directly targets those high-frequency communication pain points. Records management responds to long-standing user concerns about data assets and storage space.
These improvements do not have the kind of dazzling interface changes, but they accurately grasp the small but real "inconveniences" during daily use. It reveals where the focus of WeChat iteration is going, which is to shift from adding new and various functions to optimizing the existing experience, thereby making this application used by everyone more usable and more efficient.
The continued evolution of user experience
It can be seen from these functions used for grayscale testing that WeChat’s evolutionary path pays more and more attention to practicality. Each change attempts to solve a specific scenario problem that users have encountered many times. Such gradual optimization, although not as eye-catching as major version updates, can significantly improve the daily use experience of hundreds of millions of users.
In the future, the WeChat MBTI test may continue to explore a similar "small but beautiful" approach. How to make information processing, file management and interpersonal communication smoother without increasing complexity will be its long-term issue. What users expect is probably this "insensitive" efficiency improvement.
Among those "silent" updates on WeChat, which one do you think is most helpful to you in your daily life? Is it more labor-saving picture printing or more peaceful group chat management? Welcome to share your experience in the comment area.
