WhatsApp May Soon Let You Send ‘View Once’ Text Messages

WhatsApp has been noticed engaged on a characteristic that may add an additional layer of privateness to its customers’ messages. The messaging service at present permits customers to ship photographs and movies as “view once” messages. These are designed to vanish as quickly as they’ve been seen. A characteristic tracker has now noticed WhatsApp engaged on the power to ship “view once” textual content messages on Android. The characteristic remains to be being developed, which signifies that beta testers can not strive it out, even when they’ve the newest testing model put in on their telephones.

According to a report by WhatsApp characteristic tracker WABetaInformation, the favored messaging service recenty rolled out model 2.22.25.20 of WhatsApp for Android by way of the Google Play Beta Program. This beta model of WhatsApp consists of references to a characteristic that enables 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 sort messages earlier than they’re despatched. The button used to ship messages can also be shows a lock icon, in line with the report, which says that the looks of the characteristic would possibly change earlier than it’s ultimately launched.

WhatsApp at present blocks customers from taking screenshots of “view once” photographs and movies. Additionally, it isn’t even attainable to share, ahead, copy, and save them. The characteristic tracker says it’s attainable that WhatsApp can also block screenshots when viewing “view once” messages in a future replace.

The Meta-owned messaging service lately launched a brand new characteristic known 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 will be manually eliminated. The characteristic is out there within the newest model of the app on the App Store for customers on iOS.