Viber today pushed a couple notable improvements to itsiOS messaging app in the App Store. Bumped to version 5.6.5, Viber for iPhone now makes it easy to delete a sent message for everyone, not just for yourself, which could come in handy after accidentally sending a message to the wrong person, allowing you to recall it immediately.
you may now send media directly from your shared iCloud albums, in addition to your Camera roll like before.
As a bonus, Viber now includes the ability to reply to messages directly from the notification banner and permits you to search your Viber chats and contacts from the Home screen, using iOS 9’s much improved Spotlight Search function.
Recall a sent message
Before today, you could only delete sent messages for yourself. Starting with Viber for iOS 5.6.5, you can now recall a sent message so it disappears from the recipient’s device as well.
As shown top of post, simply tap on the sent message in the chat view and chooseDelete. The app will then offer you to choose between theDelete for Myselfoption or opt for the newDelete for Everyonefeature.
Attach files
As mentioned, Viber now includes an enhanced Share sheet action that allows you to attach documents, presentations and other files to your messages, without leaving the context of the app you’re using.
For instance, I was able to attach Apple’s official Apple Watch User Guide by choosing a newCopy to Viberoption in the Share sheet of iOS 9’s new iCloud Drive app.
If the recipient is unable to receive the file attachment because they’re using an older version of Viber, you’ll be offered an option to send them an upgrade link.
This file sharing method works in other apps that implement iOS’s multi-purpose Share sheet, including Readdle’s PDF Expert, Apple’s Pages, Numbers and Keynote and more.
If you’re on iOS 9.1 or later, you can pull down on Viber’s notification banner to reveal the text field for sending your replies without switching to the app. iOS 9 users can also enable Viber inSettings → General → Spotlight Searchin order to expose their Viber chats and contacts in iOS 9’s system-wide search.
Viber 5.6.5 changelog
The following items are new in this edition of Viber:
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Availability
Viber requires an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with iOS 7.0 or later and supports the Apple Watch with anicely done watchOS 2 appthat lets you reply from your wrist with Viber stickers, dictation and canned replies.
The app is localized in Languages: English, Arabic, Bokmål, Norwegian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
