WhatsApp has been noticed engaged on a characteristic that can add an additional layer of privateness to its customers’ messages. The messaging service at the moment permits customers to ship pictures and movies as “view as soon as” messages. These are designed to vanish as quickly as they’ve been considered. A characteristic tracker has now noticed WhatsApp engaged on the power to ship “view as soon as” textual content messages on Android. The characteristic continues to be being developed, which implies that beta testers can’t attempt it out, even when they’ve the most recent testing model put in on their telephones.

According to a report by WhatsApp characteristic tracker WABetaData, the favored messaging service recenty rolled out model 2.22.25.20 of WhatsApp for Android via the Google Play Beta Program. This beta model of WhatsApp consists of references to a characteristic that enables customers to ship “view as soon as” textual content messages.

The view as soon as characteristic for textual content messages noticed by a characteristic tracker.
Photo Credit: WABetaData

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, based on the report, which says that the looks of the characteristic would possibly change earlier than it’s finally launched.

WhatsApp at the moment blocks customers from taking screenshots of “view as soon as” pictures and movies. Additionally, it isn’t even attainable to share, ahead, copy, and save them. The characteristic tracker says it’s attainable that WhatsApp may block screenshots when viewing “view as soon as” messages in a future replace.

The Meta-owned messaging service just lately introduced 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 have the ability to add captions to forwarded media on WhatsApp, which could be manually eliminated. The characteristic is accessible within the newest model of the app on the App Store for customers on iOS.