WhatsApp Will Soon Let You Set Your Voice Messages as ‘View Once’

WhatsApp is having a busy week. The Android model of the favored messaging app introduced help for passkeys on Tuesday and launched a backside tab interface earlier within the week. Now, the Meta-owned prompt messaging platform is rolling out a function that might permit customers on each iOS and Android to set voice notes as ‘view as soon as,’ identical to the app already permits for different types of media. The function is presently within the beta testing section and will arrive for the broader userbase within the coming days.

According to a report from WhatsApp function tracker WABetaInfo, the app is rolling out a brand new privateness function to beta customers, bringing self-destructing voice notes. WhatsApp customers can already select the choice to ‘view as soon as’ whereas sending photographs and video to their contacts on the app. Now the identical function is ready to reach for voice notes as nicely.

The function is reportedly rolling out to pick out beta testers on WhatsApp beta for Android by way of the Google Play Store and WhatsApp beta for iOS by way of the TestFlight app. Compatible updates for the ‘view as soon as’ mode function for audio messages embody WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.21.15 and a couple of.23.22.4. On iOS, WhatsApp beta 23.21.1.73 is reportedly suitable with the replace.

As talked about earlier than, the function is presently solely accessible to some beta testers and a wider rollout is anticipated within the coming days. Voice notes with the ‘view as soon as’ mode on can’t be saved or forwarded to different customers. WABetaInfo additionally included screenshots of the function in testing, exhibiting the acquainted ‘view as soon as’ icon within the voice message chat bar. Tapping the icon will ship the voice be aware within the ‘view as soon as’ mode. The voice be aware despatched with the function enabled can’t be replayed, saved or shared.

WhatsApp has been boosting its privateness options in latest occasions. The app was lately reported to be engaged on a brand new secret code function for locked chats, which might permit customers to create a customized password for his or her protected chat folders.

This week, WhatsApp additionally rolled out help for passkeys on Android, which lets customers log again into their account securely utilizing biometric authentication or their system PIN. With this function, customers might use the face unlock or the fingerprint scanner on their Android telephones to log again in to their WhatsApp account with a passkey saved on their system.