{"id":352263,"date":"2017-06-28T00:16:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T16:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/06\/27\/facebook-messenger-new-video-chat-features\/"},"modified":"2017-06-28T00:16:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T16:16:47","slug":"facebook-messenger-gets-reactions-and-filters-in-video-chat-new-assistant-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/facebook-messenger-gets-reactions-and-filters-in-video-chat-new-assistant-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Messenger Gets Reactions and Filters in Video Chat, New Assistant Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook this week <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2017\/06\/messenger-just-added-more-fun-to-your-video-chats\/\">announced<\/a> it has added several new features to video chatting in its <a href=\"http:\/\/appshopper.com\/social-networking\/facebook-messenger-2\">Messenger app<\/a> for iPhone and iPad.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/06\/facebook_messenger_filters-800x393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-573705\"\/><br \/>In both one-on-one and group video chats, Messenger users can now add or use animated reactions, filters, effects, and new masks, while Facebook has added a conveniently placed camera icon to take a screenshot of your video chat.<\/p>\n<p>For animated reactions, Messenger users can choose one of five emoji icons: love, laughter, surprise, sadness, or anger. Tapping an emoji generates a related reaction that animates on the screen for a short period of time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/06\/facebook-messenger-m-save-for-later-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-573704\"\/><br \/>On the artificial intelligence side, Facebook has expanded the capabilities of Messenger&#8217;s built-in &#8220;M&#8221; personal assistant, adding a &#8220;save it for later&#8221; function, birthday wishes, and call initiations, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/06\/27\/facebook-messenger-m-ai\/\">Engadget<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The personal assistant, which is currently available in the United States only, is designed to provide proactive suggestions in Messenger [<a href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/messenger\/id454638411?mt=8\">Direct Link<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook this week announced it has added several new features to video chatting in its Messenger app for iPhone and iPad. In both one-on-one and group video chats, Messenger users can now add or use animated reactions, filters, effects, and new masks, while Facebook has added a conveniently placed camera icon to take a screenshot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":352264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-352263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}