WhatsApp, the Meta-owned immediate messaging app, is reportedly engaged on a characteristic that may let iOS customers share voice notes of their standing updates. As of now, the customers can solely share footage, movies and hyperlinks of their WhatsApp standing. However, as soon as the brand new characteristic might be rolled out, WhatsApp customers on iOS might be reportedly in a position to share voice notes or voice clips as effectively 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 word of as much as 30 seconds alongside textual content of their standing updates, just like what they’ll at present do in a WhatsApp chat.

The report has additionally shared a screengrab of the identical, hinting on the upcoming characteristic, which reveals a microphone icon on the underside of the textual content standing.

WhatsApp on iOS customers might be required to click on on the microphone icon and report 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 folks 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 alleged to be additionally being examined in WhatsApp beta for Android’s upcoming replace. As of now, this characteristic continues to be below growth, so it could be very early to say something.

Meanwhile, WhatsApp 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 below one umbrella to organise group conversations. WhatsApp Polls lets customers create polls throughout the group with the power to vote. Facebook Messenger and Telegram at present permit customers so as to add group polls. WhatsApp’s ballot characteristic might be protected by end-to-end encryption.