Latest BBM update brings better retraction, feed likes, in-app search and more

Blackberry recently released an update for its messenger platform - BBM. This new update which has several new and improved features has proven to favour the Android and iOS platform users and not BB10 users. The reason being that several of the updates seem to focus on Android and iOS BBM users.

With this new updates we might conclude that the Company is gradually dropping its own OS and focusing on Android since it has an Android device (PRIV) which has widely been accepted and its planning to release another Android device soon (VIENNA).

Some of the new features are stated below 

In-App Search and Likes for iOS and Android users

Do you need to find information about a meeting, or call to mind a past conversation? Now you can, with BBM’s new search function.

Results are categorized by chats, contacts, groups, or channels, making it even easier to find what you’re looking for.

To keep augmenting BBM Feeds’ social media capabilities, Android and iOS Users now have the ability to “like” personal feeds posts, and a new notifications section lets them know when contacts have liked a post of theirs.


Better Retraction & Editing

Last year, the company debuted message retraction, and while there were a lot of positive feedback, some users wished control over their messages was a little more extensive. That’s why, with the latest release of BBM, users can now retract both pictures and entire chats in addition to individual messages.

Retract and Edit are now available within multi-person chats with up to 200 people. iOS and Android users can also retract and edit messages in formal Group Chats, as well. In all cases, recipients will just see a “message retracted” note. For retract and edit, users must have a Privacy & Control subscription for BBM.

Users can also now locally delete messages from their chats, though this won’t delete those messages for other senders and recipients. This is a free feature for Android and iOS users today. Other added features include

Android Broadcasts: Android BBM users can now send broadcast messages to different categories of their contacts (i.e. friends, co-workers, family, etc.), an already-existing feature on BB10 and iOS.

iOS 3D Touch: iOS BBM users can use 3D Touch to quickly send messages, update their status, display a picture, search BBM, and more.