WhatsApp has been noticed engaged on a characteristic that can add an additional layer of privateness to its customers’ messages. The messaging service presently permits customers to ship photos and movies as “view once” messages. These are designed to vanish as quickly as they’ve been considered. A characteristic tracker has now noticed WhatsApp engaged on the flexibility to ship “view once” textual content messages on Android. The characteristic continues to be being developed, which implies that beta testers can’t strive it out, even when they’ve the newest testing model put in on their telephones.
According to a report by WhatsApp characteristic tracker WABetaData, the favored messaging service recenty rolled out model 2.22.25.20 of WhatsApp for Android by the Google Play Beta Program. This beta model of WhatsApp contains references to a characteristic that permits customers to ship “view once” textual content messages.
The view as soon as characteristic for textual content messages noticed by a characteristic tracker.
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As per the characteristic tracker, WhatsApp is engaged on a particular button positioned subsequent to the chat bar, the place customers kind messages earlier than they’re despatched. The button used to ship messages can be shows a lock icon, based on the report, which says that the looks of the characteristic may change earlier than it’s finally launched.
WhatsApp presently blocks customers from taking screenshots of “view once” photos and movies. Additionally, it isn’t even doable to share, ahead, copy, and save them. The characteristic tracker says it’s doable that WhatsApp might also block screenshots when viewing “view once” messages in a future replace.
The Meta-owned messaging service not too long ago launched a brand new characteristic referred to as “Message Yourself” on iOS and Android letting customers ship or ahead messages to themselves. WhatsApp customers can ahead messages to themselves from different chats, and even share content material from different apps on to a chat with themselves on WhatsApp.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp has additionally rolled out an enhancement for iOS customers, letting them ahead media with captions. iPhone house owners will be capable to add captions to forwarded media on WhatsApp, which could be manually eliminated. The characteristic is accessible within the newest model of the app on the App Store for customers on iOS.