Do you know? The WeChat circle of friends is no longer only "nine palace grid". On January 26, WeChat 8.0.18 for iOS version was officially released, and this update is introduced as: "Fixed some known issues." "After the WeChat update, the WeChat circle of friends can send 20 pictures, and the WeChat keyboard and New Year red envelopes have also been added."
Now weChat circle of friends can choose 20 pictures. If you select more than 9 images, a prompt will appear at the bottom: "Select more than 9 images, you need to make a new video for publication." "Click Next, you can choose the template and background music you need to complete the video production.

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At the same time, in the latest version, you can experience the "New Year's Greeting Red Packet" function in the WeChat single chat dialog.
The amount of the New Year red envelope cannot be customized, and the system will randomly select some auspicious numbers. For example: 2.88, 1.66, 6.66, 8.88, 0.88, 2.33, etc. Each digital package comes with a different greeting and a different dynamic effect.
Wishful Thinking:
Overnight Riches:
Good luck:
After receiving the New Year's greeting red packet, friends can also set the blessing language of the red packet to WeChat status (the blessing words include: reunion, wishful thinking, overnight wealth, great luck, good luck, and laughter). After setting the WeChat status, a small tiger avatar and the text status of the Chinese New Year will be displayed on the dialogue page.
In addition, the new feature of "WeChat Keyboard" is also online in this version, but it can only be applied to a very few scenes. According to the test, the WeChat keyboard can only be used when entering the amount in the red envelope interface.
In January last year, Zhang Xiaolong, senior executive vice president of Tencent and president of the WeChat business group, said in a speech that WeChat will launch its own input method. At that time, he said that WeChat originally did not want to do the input method, but received many complaints from users that their chat history was stolen because they would see the corresponding ads if they entered anything. "WeChat doesn't sell users' chat histories or analyze them, so it loses a lot of advertising revenue."
As soon as the above update was released, the relevant discussion immediately appeared on Weibo's hot search.
Netizens expressed different views, some netizens are very satisfied with the update, and some netizens said: "The circle of friends is occupied by micro-business, what is the use of sending 20 sheets?" ”
Many netizens said that these functions also need to be arranged:
In your opinion, what features of WeChat need to be updated as soon as possible?
Synthesized from: Daily Economic News, Surging News, WeChat Pie