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== Features of ICQ New ==

The last version of the service, launched in 2020 as "ICQ New", featured a number of different messaging functions:

* Private chats: conversations between two users, with history synchronized to the cloud. A user could delete a sent message at any time, and a notification will be shown indicating that the message has been deleted.
* A chat with oneself, which could be used to save messages from group or private chats, or upload media content as a form of [[cloud storage]].
* Group chats with up to 25 thousand participants at the same time, which any user could create. Users could hide their phone number from other participants, see which group members have read a message, and switched off notifications for messages from specific group members.
* Audio and video calls with up to five people.
* Sending and receiving of audio messages, with automatic transcription to text.
* Channels, where authors could publish posts as text messages and attach media files, similar to a [[blog]]. Once the post was published, subscribers receive a notification as they would from regular and group chats. The channel author could remain anonymous.
* Polls inside group chats.
* An API-bot which could be used by anyone to create a [[social bot|bot]], to perform specific actions and interact with users.
* "Stickers": small images or photos expressing some form of emotion, could be selected from a provided sticker library or users could upload their own. [[Machine learning]] was used to recommend stickers automatically.
* "Masks": images that could be superimposed onto the camera in real-time during video calls, or onto photos to be sent to other users. 
* [[Nickname]]s, which users could set to use in place of a phone number for others to search for and contact them.
* "Smart answers": short phrases that appear above the message box which can be used to answer messages. ICQ New analyzed the contents of a conversation and suggests a few pre-set answers.