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three Ways to Add Fresh Friends and Stay Connected While Traveling

Summer is here! It’s the flawless time to meet fresh friends and make sure you stay connected, even during your world travels.

1. Within a talk conversation, tap the Avatar icon on the upper right-hand corner
2. Select your contact adding method: “Friend Radar,” “Join Private Group,” or “Scan QR Code”

Meeting a lot of cool fresh people, but don’t have time to add all of them? Friend Radar lets you quickly add friends within your surroundings. It saves you time and skips the one-by-one adding!

Staying Fit with WeRun on WeChat

As the weather is getting warmer, it’s time to get active with the help of our fitness Official Account, WeRun.

By enabling WeRun, you can track your daily step count and see how close you are to reaching your fitness goals. If friendly competition helps motivate you, you can see how you stack up with friends who also go after the Official Account on your personalized leaderboard.

Customize Photos with the Fresh WeChat Annotation Feature for iOS and Android

Did you know you can edit pics within WeChat from your photo album before sharing to your Moments timeline or talk conversations? Just update your app to the latest version of WeChat 6.Five.Five for iOS or WeChat 6.Five.Four for Android , then go after the steps below to embark customizing your pictures!

1. In your Moments timeline, tap the Camera icon in the upper righthand corner
2. Choose a photo from your photo album
3. Select “Edit” or “Preview” to draw, add text, stickers, and more
4. Hit “Send”

Users Ring in the Lunar Fresh Year with Two.1 Billion Minutes of Free Calls on WeChat

WeChat aims to connect users to the people they care about around the world. One of the most popular times to connect and call loved ones is during the holidays. This Lunar Fresh Year, users made Two.1 billion minutes of free calls on WeChat – five times more than the previous year.

A total of forty six billion crimson packets were also exchanged during this Spring Festival holiday.

Learn more about how WeChat users celebrated the holiday in the data report below created by the WeChat team.

The two thousand sixteen WeChat Data Report

We recently unveiled our “2016 WeChat Data Report” at the two thousand seventeen WeChat Workshop Pro Edition event in China. What's fresh with the WeChat lifestyle this year? Let's take a look at a few data points:

WeChat for Mac Two.1.0 – Free Voice and Movie Calling Straight from Your Desktop

Introducing our latest WeChat for Mac update – Two.1.0! Now available for download on your Mac desktop. Call and movie talk your friends for free directly on your computer without missing a hammer.

What’s Fresh in Version Two.1.0?

• Place voice and movie calls for free with friends
• Convert audio messages into text messages for effortless reading (Chinese-only)
• View our improved screenshot feature
• Forward and dearest talk scripts
• Scroll over animated stickers to preview before sending
• Love our optimized larger fonts
• Lightly adjust the height of your input talk field to fit even your longest messages

Be sure to upgrade today to practice all the fresh WeChat for Mac Two.1.0 features!

Free Global Calling for Thanksgiving – WeChat Out Limited-Time Suggest

In celebration of Thanksgiving, we would like to express our veritable gratitude to you, our users. Beginning today, WeChat users outside China will receive one week of free global calling on WeChat Out!

That's right. As you are liking your delicious Thanksgiving meal, share your thanks by calling loved ones in more than one hundred countries and regions – absolutely free.

Consider this our way of telling thanks! Simply tap the “Detect” tab on your WeChat menu bar > click “WeChat Out” to access the feature.

The holiday season is a time to reconnect with friends and family to express gratitude. Be sure to participate in our holiday suggest valid November 24, two thousand sixteen – November 30, 2016.

Blessed Thanksgiving from all of us on team WeChat!

Sticker Story – Get Your Daily Dose of Bubble Pups!

A elementary gesture can make someone’s day and we believe animated stickers can too, so we’re bringing Bubble Pups back again, but this time, for your daily reactions. No, this isn’t one of White Pup’s tricks. Yes, this is the real deal.

Now Available: WeChat for Mac Two.0

Have you checked out our latest WeChat for Mac update?

Version Two.0 includes a fresh sleek interface, capability to share all your beloved downloaded stickers and more.

• Sleek and optimized user interface
• View Favorites straight from your desktop, including saved photos and links
• Send all your dearest custom-built and downloaded stickers
• Love quicker login
• Seamlessly toggle inbetween devices as Two.0 now retains your talk history

Be sure to upgrade today to practice all the fresh features!

nine Ways WeChat Can Improve Your Day

Through stop-motion animation, our fresh movie, “One Day with WeChat,” captures how WeChat integrates into the everyday lives of our users in China. For these users, WeChat is not only an app, but a lifestyle, a fresh way to connect and interact with their world.

So how exactly does WeChat in China, known as Weixin, make the lives of our users lighter? Go after our movie to see how people utilize the app at any time of the day.

1. Wake up in the morning and check out social updates in Moments

“Invite Friends, Get Free Calls” with Latest Release of WeChat Out Globally

WeChat users in twelve countries including the United States, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Italy, Thailand and India can now use WeChat Out to make calls to mobile phones and landlines in over two hundred countries for nominal rates. WeChat Out is the latest milestone suggesting of the world's fastest growing social app with seven hundred sixty two million monthly active users around the world.

Fresh WeChat Out users will receive more than an hour* of free calling credit. And all users can earn even more prizes by participating in our “Invite Friends, Get Free Calls” campaign.

One Click to a Free Call

“Invite Friends, Get Free Calls” is plain – the more you give, the more you get.

1. After upgrading your app version, inject the event screen and tap “Invite Friends, Get Free Calls”

Two. Share WeChat Out bounty cards with friends

Three. Once your friends redeem their bounty card and make a call, you'll receive one too for the same amount you gave. View all your bounty cards under My Coupons.

WeChat for Windows Two.1 – Now with Free Group Voice and Movie Calling

Sometimes you just can't substitute a call or face-to-face talk with friends, whether it be on your mobile or desktop. That's why in our latest version of WeChat for Windows, we are introducing group voice and movie calls now available directly from your PC via WeChat!

Be sure to upgrade now to WeChat for Windows Two.1 to get embarked and check out all the latest updates.

What's Fresh in WeChat for Windows Two.1?

1. Place voice and movie calls within group talks

Two. Send files four times as large with the fresh files size limit increase from twenty five MB to now 100MB!

Trio. Practice the freshly designed look of your talk bubbles

Four. Love improvements to the embedded browser for a better user practice.

“WeChat Out” VOIP Feature Now Rapidly Expanding Around the World

In January, we launched “WeChat Out,” a breakthrough VOIP feature permitting users to make low-rate calls to mobile phones and landlines around the globe via WeChat.

After receiving overwhelmingly positive feedback from our initial rollout in the United States, India, and Hong Kong, we are excited to announce the official launch of the feature in Thailand, Laos, Macau and Italy. This brings the total countries and regions where WeChat Out is available to seven.

If you are in one of the countries WeChat Out is now available, be sure to update to the latest version and commence calling. WeChat will provide free call credit and discounts for you!

“WeChat Out” is a fresh feature in WeChat that enables calls to landline or mobile phones. Using WeChat Out, users can lightly make affordable and high-quality calls from anywhere in the world to anywhere else.

WeChat Out is easy-to-use. Just update to the latest version of the app and navigate to the “Discover” screen to find the fresh WeChat Out feature. Tap “WeChat Out” and WeChat will showcase your address book, a dial pad, and your WeChat Out call history. Now placing a call via WeChat is as effortless as dialing a few numbers.

Frog and Pony are Back in Activity!

Frog and Pony, the quirky duo, are making their third appearance on WeChat with the fresh Frog and Pony three sticker pack.

Since the introduction of their very first sticker set, the two have risen to stardom amongst WeChat users and are ready to demonstrate off their best dance moves yet. This time, disco-style.

You haven't seen anything, if you haven't witnessed Frog's figure rolls, Pony's batusi or the pair's synchronized hair spins. The set features twenty four hip wiggling stickers that will get you in the mood to party like a rockstar.

Be sure to download them today in your WeChat sticker gallery!

Fresh Data Exposed – Spring Festival two thousand sixteen on WeChat

Lunar Fresh Year is known as China’s largest holiday. This year was no exception as people in Asia and all around the world ushered in the year of the monkey with WeChat.

Through WeChat, users participated in the holiday’s time honored traditions in fresh and joy ways.

Crimson Packets or Fortunate Money are bounty envelopes rammed with cash typically exchanged inbetween family and friends. Through WeChat Crimson Packets, users were able to instead give digital cash in the form of communication. On this Lunar Fresh Year’s Eve alone, over eight billion Crimson Packets were sent and received by four hundred twenty millions users. This represented eight times more than last year’s holiday.

Read the utter “Spring Festival two thousand sixteen on WeChat” white paper and learn exactly how WeChat helped family and friends connect this year: CLICK HERE

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three Ways to Add Fresh Friends and Stay Connected While Traveling

Summer is here! It’s the ideal time to meet fresh friends and make sure you stay connected, even during your world travels.

1. Within a talk conversation, tap the Avatar icon on the upper right-hand corner
2. Select your contact adding method: “Friend Radar,” “Join Private Group,” or “Scan QR Code”

Meeting a lot of cool fresh people, but don’t have time to add all of them? Friend Radar lets you quickly add friends within your surroundings. It saves you time and skips the one-by-one adding!

Staying Fit with WeRun on WeChat

As the weather is getting warmer, it’s time to get active with the help of our fitness Official Account, WeRun.

By enabling WeRun, you can track your daily step count and see how close you are to reaching your fitness goals. If friendly competition helps motivate you, you can see how you stack up with friends who also go after the Official Account on your personalized leaderboard.

Customize Photos with the Fresh WeChat Annotation Feature for iOS and Android

Did you know you can edit pics within WeChat from your photo album before sharing to your Moments timeline or talk conversations? Just update your app to the latest version of WeChat 6.Five.Five for iOS or WeChat 6.Five.Four for Android , then go after the steps below to embark customizing your pictures!

1. In your Moments timeline, tap the Camera icon in the upper righthand corner
2. Choose a photo from your photo album
3. Select “Edit” or “Preview” to draw, add text, stickers, and more
4. Hit “Send”

Users Ring in the Lunar Fresh Year with Two.1 Billion Minutes of Free Calls on WeChat

WeChat aims to connect users to the people they care about around the world. One of the most popular times to connect and call loved ones is during the holidays. This Lunar Fresh Year, users made Two.1 billion minutes of free calls on WeChat – five times more than the previous year.

A total of forty six billion crimson packets were also exchanged during this Spring Festival holiday.

Learn more about how WeChat users celebrated the holiday in the data report below created by the WeChat team.

The two thousand sixteen WeChat Data Report

We recently unveiled our “2016 WeChat Data Report” at the two thousand seventeen WeChat Workshop Pro Edition event in China. What's fresh with the WeChat lifestyle this year? Let's take a look at a few data points:

WeChat for Mac Two.1.0 – Free Voice and Movie Calling Straight from Your Desktop

Introducing our latest WeChat for Mac update – Two.1.0! Now available for download on your Mac desktop. Call and movie talk your friends for free directly on your computer without missing a strike.

What’s Fresh in Version Two.1.0?

• Place voice and movie calls for free with friends
• Convert audio messages into text messages for effortless reading (Chinese-only)
• View our improved screenshot feature
• Forward and dearest talk scripts
• Scroll over animated stickers to preview before sending
• Love our optimized larger fonts
• Lightly adjust the height of your input talk field to fit even your longest messages

Be sure to upgrade today to practice all the fresh WeChat for Mac Two.1.0 features!

Free Global Calling for Thanksgiving – WeChat Out Limited-Time Suggest

In celebration of Thanksgiving, we would like to express our veritable gratitude to you, our users. Kicking off today, WeChat users outside China will receive one week of free global calling on WeChat Out!

That's right. As you are loving your delicious Thanksgiving meal, share your thanks by calling loved ones in more than one hundred countries and regions – absolutely free.

Consider this our way of telling thanks! Simply tap the “Detect” tab on your WeChat menu bar > click “WeChat Out” to access the feature.

The holiday season is a time to reconnect with friends and family to express gratitude. Be sure to participate in our holiday suggest valid November 24, two thousand sixteen – November 30, 2016.

Blessed Thanksgiving from all of us on team WeChat!

Sticker Story – Get Your Daily Dose of Bubble Pups!

A plain gesture can make someone’s day and we believe animated stickers can too, so we’re bringing Bubble Pups back again, but this time, for your daily reactions. No, this isn’t one of White Pup’s tricks. Yes, this is the real deal.

Now Available: WeChat for Mac Two.0

Have you checked out our latest WeChat for Mac update?

Version Two.0 includes a fresh sleek interface, capability to share all your beloved downloaded stickers and more.

• Sleek and optimized user interface
• View Favorites straight from your desktop, including saved photos and links
• Send all your dearest custom-built and downloaded stickers
• Love quicker login
• Seamlessly toggle inbetween devices as Two.0 now retains your talk history

Be sure to upgrade today to practice all the fresh features!

nine Ways WeChat Can Improve Your Day

Through stop-motion animation, our fresh movie, “One Day with WeChat,” captures how WeChat integrates into the everyday lives of our users in China. For these users, WeChat is not only an app, but a lifestyle, a fresh way to connect and interact with their world.

So how exactly does WeChat in China, known as Weixin, make the lives of our users lighter? Go after our movie to see how people utilize the app at any time of the day.

1. Wake up in the morning and check out social updates in Moments

“Invite Friends, Get Free Calls” with Latest Release of WeChat Out Globally

WeChat users in twelve countries including the United States, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Italy, Thailand and India can now use WeChat Out to make calls to mobile phones and landlines in over two hundred countries for nominal rates. WeChat Out is the latest milestone suggesting of the world's fastest growing social app with seven hundred sixty two million monthly active users around the world.

Fresh WeChat Out users will receive more than an hour* of free calling credit. And all users can earn even more prizes by participating in our “Invite Friends, Get Free Calls” campaign.

One Click to a Free Call

“Invite Friends, Get Free Calls” is ordinary – the more you give, the more you get.

1. After upgrading your app version, inject the event screen and tap “Invite Friends, Get Free Calls”

Two. Share WeChat Out bounty cards with friends

Trio. Once your friends redeem their bounty card and make a call, you'll receive one too for the same amount you gave. View all your bounty cards under My Coupons.

WeChat for Windows Two.1 – Now with Free Group Voice and Movie Calling

Sometimes you just can't substitute a call or face-to-face talk with friends, whether it be on your mobile or desktop. That's why in our latest version of WeChat for Windows, we are introducing group voice and movie calls now available directly from your PC via WeChat!

Be sure to upgrade now to WeChat for Windows Two.1 to get began and check out all the latest updates.

What's Fresh in WeChat for Windows Two.1?

1. Place voice and movie calls within group talks

Two. Send files four times as large with the fresh files size limit increase from twenty five MB to now 100MB!

Three. Practice the freshly designed look of your talk bubbles

Four. Love improvements to the embedded browser for a better user practice.

“WeChat Out” VOIP Feature Now Rapidly Expanding Around the World

In January, we launched “WeChat Out,” a breakthrough VOIP feature permitting users to make low-rate calls to mobile phones and landlines around the globe via WeChat.

After receiving overwhelmingly positive feedback from our initial rollout in the United States, India, and Hong Kong, we are excited to announce the official launch of the feature in Thailand, Laos, Macau and Italy. This brings the total countries and regions where WeChat Out is available to seven.

If you are in one of the countries WeChat Out is now available, be sure to update to the latest version and commence calling. WeChat will provide free call credit and discounts for you!

“WeChat Out” is a fresh feature in WeChat that enables calls to landline or mobile phones. Using WeChat Out, users can lightly make affordable and high-quality calls from anywhere in the world to anywhere else.

WeChat Out is easy-to-use. Just update to the latest version of the app and navigate to the “Discover” screen to find the fresh WeChat Out feature. Tap “WeChat Out” and WeChat will showcase your address book, a dial pad, and your WeChat Out call history. Now placing a call via WeChat is as effortless as dialing a few numbers.

Frog and Pony are Back in Activity!

Frog and Pony, the quirky duo, are making their third appearance on WeChat with the fresh Frog and Pony three sticker pack.

Since the introduction of their very first sticker set, the two have risen to stardom amongst WeChat users and are ready to display off their best dance moves yet. This time, disco-style.

You haven't seen anything, if you haven't witnessed Frog's figure rolls, Pony's batusi or the pair's synchronized hair shifts. The set features twenty four hip wiggling stickers that will get you in the mood to party like a rockstar.

Be sure to download them today in your WeChat sticker gallery!

Fresh Data Exposed – Spring Festival two thousand sixteen on WeChat

Lunar Fresh Year is known as China’s largest holiday. This year was no exception as people in Asia and all around the world ushered in the year of the monkey with WeChat.

Through WeChat, users participated in the holiday’s time honored traditions in fresh and joy ways.

Crimson Packets or Fortunate Money are bounty envelopes tucked with cash typically exchanged inbetween family and friends. Through WeChat Crimson Packets, users were able to instead give digital cash in the form of communication. On this Lunar Fresh Year’s Eve alone, over eight billion Crimson Packets were sent and received by four hundred twenty millions users. This represented eight times more than last year’s holiday.

Read the utter “Spring Festival two thousand sixteen on WeChat” white paper and learn exactly how WeChat helped family and friends connect this year: CLICK HERE

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