Initially, the VKontakte network was created for communication. And then she got out of various bells and whistles and turned into a "miracle-combine."

The main social network Runet launched its own VK messenger in the form of a separate application available now on Android and iOS.

The main idea of ​​this step is to provide only the necessary functionality to those who use social network mainly for communication, and do not want to be distracted by various entertainment, news, gaming and other moments, which are many mostly VK.

In the messenger you can only correspond in chat, make voice and video calls both one person and group, send audio messages, do their decryption (for messages no more than 2 minutes).

Moreover, you can start correspondence both with those who have been added to your friends and with other people from the list of contacts of your phone, with whom you are "not friends" in the framework of VK. In this case, such a person will receive an invitation to correspondence.

You can also hide the time of your last activity, use the phantom-chat in which all correspondence will disappear through a given time, and turn on the dark topic.

Therefore, let's take a look not some interesting opportunities and chips of the new application.

Voice messages

Having received or send a voice message in the chat, you can decipher it in the form of a text. To do this, click on the AA icon.

By pressing the microphone icon and holding it, you can dictate a voice message. This is a common function. But if you, without letting go of your finger, move it up, when the lock icon becomes closed, and then release, then the sound recording from the microphone will continue. This is necessary to record long -term messages so as not to keep your finger.

Chat archive

While on the chat list, make a long press on one of them, then a menu will appear below. Choose in it to "archive" and the chat will go to the archive. You will no longer see it in the general list.

It is convenient to place chats that you do not need yet in the archive, but you would not want to remove them at all.

To return the chat from the archive, pull the list of chats down, then the "Archive" line will appear at the top.

Enter it and there will be all archived chats. Make a long press on the desired long and in the menu from below select "Return from the archive."

Phantom chats

While in the list of chats, click on a round icon right below. The menu will open on top in which the item will be "Create a phantom-chat".

Select it and you can note the contacts that you want to add to this chat with disappearing content.

Phantom chats are an analogue of secret chats in Telegram.

By the way, if you are in the list of chats, you will press the “chats” icon once, a point will appear on it, and only those chats in which there are unread messages will appear on the list. In the screenshot on the left is empty, because at that time I did not have unread.

In the reviews on Google Play, some users swear and call the new messenger raw and buggy. Everything works correctly for me. Well, I consider displeasure by small insignificant shortcomings to be a nit -picking of perfectionists.

In general, I liked the VK messenger, it resembles my favorite telegram. I will leave it to myself and will use it instead of the main application of VK, because I am exactly the user who only communicates 99% there.

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