Japan Explorer: Travel Guide

Video worth sending. Clips now run to three minutes. They used to stop after a few seconds — not because of a limit anyone chose, but because nothing was shrinking them on the way out. Now they are, so a real video of a real place actually arrives. Videos play where they are. Tap to start, tap the middle to pause, or tap the video to open it full screen with a scrubber you can drag. React to any message with a tap. Hold a message — text, photo, video or sticker — and pick a reaction. Reactions sit on the message's top corner, and tapping one shows you exactly who reacted. Pin a message to the top of the group. The group's owner can pin the thing everyone keeps scrolling back for — the check-in time, the meeting point — and it stays at the top for everyone. A tap takes you straight to it. Join a group and start from today. Someone added to a trip now reads it from the moment they arrived rather than from the beginning, except the itinerary itself, which stays whole. Notifications now say who sent it, which group it came from, and what it was. Sending is quicker to reach, too. Recent photos and video sit right above the keyboard, one tap to send, instead of three taps and a picker. Photos are prepared before they go, so they send faster and arrive looking better on every phone. Voice messages got the fixes they needed: a send button that looks like one, and a delete button that works. Tap anyone in a group's settings to open their profile. And accepting a friend request now shows them straight away, without restarting the app.