The WeChat for iOS has been updated to version 7.0.9, bringing in the function of quoting previous content when sending messages.
The WeChat Android Beta 7.0.10 update already supports the dark mode of Android 10. However, the official version of WeChat iOS version 7.0.9 does not support the dark mode, and may have to wait until the next version.
In addition, the latest WeChat for iOS also adds a separate setting for friend permissions.
The new friend permissions can be set separately for chat, friends circle and WeChat sports and can also be limited to the chat function. In addition, the friends circle and video sharing permissions can also be set.
The new version also allows user to post emoticons to comment on the content of other people's friend circle updates.
WeChat has nearly 1 billion users and has always been very cautious about changes, fearing that the user interface design before it hurts the user experience will not change much for many years.
Allen Zhang is known as the “father of WeChat” whose public persona has much the same cultural importance and weight as the American legacy of Steve Jobs.
He is renowned in China’s tech scene as an artist and philosopher, as well as for his fierce mission against anything that degrades user experience.
Product managers throughout China have flocked to work at WeChat to learn from Zhang’s product acumen and learn from the product-driven (versus engineering or design-driven) environment he has built.
He talked about 7 WeChat work concepts at the recent annual meeting of Tencent:
- 1. Do something valuable. For important collaborations, ask what is the value to users.
- 2. Maintain your own values. Because it has a profound impact on users. For example, WeChat allows creation to generate value.
- 3. Keep small teams agile. Avoid bureaucracy. Each unit is carried by a small team, and its own wisdom and thinking are used to output. It is not workers, not people.
- 4. Learning and rapid iteration are more important than past experience. Inexperience also means that there are no restrictions, and the times are changing rapidly. Past experience may not be tried out. The past experience can be used to refine the methodology to better guide practice.
- 5. System thinking. Do something systematically. The goal of WeChat is to be a tool to connect the world, so as to spontaneously grow a system.
- 6, let users bring users, word of mouth to win word of mouth.
- 7. Thinking is greater than execution. A lot of fun in work is the joy of thinking. Arguing and debating, gaining and growing every day, rethinking your own thinking, renewing your thinking, becoming more low-level, thinking about the nature of the problem, and continuously deepening understanding and advancing. It's easier to master complicated things. Strong transitional execution can lead to weakened thinking.
