WhatsApp, a Meta owned instantaneous messaging app has not too long ago introduced its “ahead media with caption characteristic.” The characteristic is now out there for Android customers, suggests a report. This characteristic will let customers ahead media with a caption.
According to a report by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp desires customers to concentrate on the brand new characteristic by providing them the power to take away the caption from the media earlier than forwarding it. The characteristic was earlier made out there for iOS and it lets customers ship GIFs, movies and different media with a caption.
This characteristic will assist customers so as to add captions to the media recordsdata and additional come helpful to shortly search previous recordsdata just by looking out the key phrases from the caption. After forwarding a media with caption, a brand new view will emerge on the backside of the display. This will permit them to know whether or not the characteristic is enabled or not. Moreover, it comes with a dismiss button to delete the caption from the picture earlier than any person forwards the message if she decides to not ahead it.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp is engaged on a ‘kept message’ characteristic. According to WaBetaInfo, the characteristic will permit customers to briefly save a disappearing message. WhatsApp launched disappearing messages in August 2021. Messages despatched as disappearing messages get mechanically deleted after a particular time interval as chosen by the sender.
But, the platform is now working to provide customers extra management over these disappearing messages. With the stored message characteristic, messages won’t be mechanically deleted from the chat and everybody within the dialog can nonetheless see it. Instead, customers can have management over the dialog and might select to “un-keep” the message at any time, and it’ll disappear from the chat without end, the WaBetaInfo report says.
It says that WhatsApp will add a bookmark icon within the message bubble of disappearing messages to establish a stored message in WhatsApp. The icon will point out that the disappearing message has been ‘kept’ and shall be saved even when the disappearing messages characteristic is turned on.
Kept message characteristic will permit customers to simply distinguish stored messages from common disappearing messages throughout the chat. It have to be famous right here that each one members within the dialog can delete these messages at any time. The characteristic continues to be in improvement and is more likely to include a future replace.
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