WhatsApp for iPhone Starts Getting ‘View Once’ Feature for Images, Videos

WhatsApp for iPhone now helps you to ship photographs and movies that may solely be considered as soon as by recipients. The new change is at the moment rolling out to the iPhone customers by means of a brand new WhatsApp model that’s accessible for obtain by means of the App Store. The replace additionally adjustments the model of in-app message notifications. WhatsApp has been testing the ‘view as soon as’ characteristic for a while to basically allow photographs and movies to vanish from the chat after they’re considered by the recipient. However, it does not limit folks from conserving a report of the media content material by merely taking their screenshots.

The anticipated ‘view as soon as’ ephemeral messaging characteristic has began rolling out by means of WhatsApp for iPhone model 2.21.150 in India. Once you get the characteristic, it is possible for you to to allow the disappearing of the photograph or video earlier than sending them to your contacts by tapping the brand new ‘1′ icon that seems subsequent to the caption bar.

Photos and movies which might be being shared utilizing the ‘view as soon as’ characteristic will not be seen within the chat the place they had been despatched as soon as the recipient exits the media viewer. The media content material can even not be saved to the recipient’s Photos or Gallery, they usually cannot ahead them by means of the app. However, recipients can nonetheless take a screenshot of the ‘view as soon as’ photographs or seize these movies by utilizing the default display recording characteristic.

WhatsApp has been testing the characteristic since at the least September 2020 to let customers make their photographs and movies disappear from the app as soon as it’s considered by the recipients. It additionally entered the beta testing section for each Android and iOS gadgets in late June. The Facebook-owned app additionally introduced it to WhatsApp Web for some customers final month.

Alongside the ‘view as soon as’ characteristic, the up to date WhatsApp for iPhone brings the brand new model of in-app message notifications that removes the litter and brings extra focus to the message content material.

WhatsApp has clearly talked about within the launch notes that the brand new options will roll out over the approaching weeks. This means that you could be not obtain them on the first look and may need to attend for a number of days to get them in your Apple gadget. We had been additionally not be capable to see the ‘view as soon as’ characteristic accessible on our iPhone gadgets, although the up to date in-app notification model was there on one among our items.

Meanwhile, you’ll be able to download the most recent WhatsApp launch in your iPhone by going by means of the App Store. It is appropriate with all iPhone fashions operating iOS 10.0 and later.