WhatsApp, the Meta-owned instantaneous messaging app, is reportedly engaged on a characteristic that can let iOS customers share voice notes of their standing updates. As of now, the customers can solely share photos, movies and hyperlinks of their WhatsApp standing. However, as soon as the brand new characteristic can be rolled out, WhatsApp customers on iOS can be reportedly capable of share voice notes or voice clips as properly of their standing updates on the app. According to the report, the messaging platform is testing the characteristic on iOS Beta for an upcoming replace.
According to a report by WhatsApp growth tracker WABetaData, WhatsApp customers on iOS will have the ability to share a voice observe of as much as 30 seconds alongside textual content of their standing updates, just like what they will at the moment do in a WhatsApp chat.
The report has additionally shared a screengrab of the identical, hinting on the upcoming characteristic, which exhibits a microphone icon on the underside of the textual content standing.
WhatsApp on iOS customers can be required to click on on the microphone icon and document their voice to add it as their standing replace. They may even add textual content to it, if wanted. It is value noting that the voice standing updates will solely be shared with the individuals chosen within the privateness settings. Also, these voice notes will at all times be end-to-end encrypted.
Not solely iOS, however this skill is claimed to be additionally being examined in WhatsApp beta for Android’s upcoming replace. As of now, this characteristic remains to be beneath growth, so it will be very early to say something.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp just lately rolled out WhatsApp Polls to customers on each Android and iOS. The Polls characteristic was launched alongside ‘Communities’, a characteristic that permits customers to have separate teams beneath one umbrella to organise group conversations. WhatsApp Polls lets customers create polls inside the group with the power to vote. Facebook Messenger and Telegram at the moment enable customers so as to add group polls. WhatsApp’s ballot characteristic can be protected by end-to-end encryption.