WhatsApp to launch an exciting new feature soon

WhatsApp to launch an exciting new feature soon

WhatsApp has started rolling out a new feature that will be particularly helpful in classifying forwards, and taking on the fake news and information dissemination problem that plagues the platform. Forwarded messages now carry a tag above the message saying ‘forwarded’, which helps inform the receiver of the message that the sender has forwarded it. This will help differentiate between messages actually typed out and forwarded as received.

Recently, WhatsApp also started rolling out two new features — media visibility and new contact shortcut — with its Android update version V2.18.159.

The media visibility feature enables users to choose the visibility of shared media. Users will have the option of modifying the settings from WhatsApp Settings, Data and Storage Usage, where they will have a new option called Media Visibility. Once a user enables the option, then they will see all the downloaded media in gallery outside of WhatsApp.

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However, disabling the option would hide all the downloaded media. Users will be able to see the media within the app but not in the gallery.

Another feature which comes with the update is of contact shortcut, addition to new group. Pressing the shortcut will enable the user to quickly create a new contact. These features are in beta mode and are not available for everyone presently.

Before that, the company has now introduced some new improvements for the WhatsApp groups. The popular messenger app has introduced five new improvements to WhatsApp groups which include group description, admin controls, group catch up, participant search and admin permissions.