WhatsApp’s ‘View Once’ function may broaden to incorporate textual content messages

WhatsApp’s “View Once” function, which at the moment enables you to ship photographs and movies that disappear after the recipient has considered them, might quickly additionally assist customary text-based messages. WABetaInfo reports that it discovered proof of the in-development function within the newest beta model of WhatsApp’s Android app, which could at some point let customers ship messages which can be solely viewable as soon as earlier than disappearing into the ether.

Much like the present “View Once” function, the brand new performance may at some point be helpful for sending delicate data that you just don’t desire a recipient to have ongoing entry to, like a password or bank card particulars. In truth, when WhatsApp introduced the launch of View Once for photographs and movies, it used the instance of somebody sending a photograph of their Wi-Fi login particulars as a case the place it may be helpful. It’s not exhausting to think about this identical data being despatched within the type of a disappearing textual content message.

WhatsApp already gives a disappearing messages function which lets you set each message despatched in a chat to vanish after a set time frame. But the brand new “View Once” function would solely apply to a selected message somewhat than a complete dialog, and would have a message disappear after it’s been considered, somewhat than after a set time frame.

As it stands, WABetaInfo experiences that the function might at some point be accessible by way of a button within the app that has the standard ship message emblem on it mixed with a padlock. But because the function is in-development, and at the moment isn’t even obtainable to beta testers, this design might change earlier than it’s formally launched.

A spokesperson for WhatsApp declined to touch upon WABetaInfo’s report on the upcoming function, so it’s unclear when, or even when, it may be formally obtainable.