WhatsApp has made a small — however very important — change to its messaging platform that might stop people from listening again to your conversations.
It’s been over two years since WhatsApp, the world’s hottest messaging service with over two billion customers worldwide, launched the “View Once” performance to routinely delete pictures and movies after they have been seen by the recipient. And now, the identical protections are coming to audio messages.
Until now, voice messages would stay on the recipient’s cellphone ceaselessly. These might be saved, forwarded or shared elsewhere with out the unique sender even being conscious.
Thankfully, that is now not doable, thanks to the protections afforded by the “View Once” performance, which causes your complete voice message to disappear as quickly because the recording has been listened to. It’s like the start of a Mission Impossible movie each time you ship a voice memo to pals or household.
Granted, it is just a little complicated that WhatsApp has caught with the identical “View Once” branding for its audio messages. But it is sensible to hold consistency throughout the messaging platform.
The “View Once” icon, the small gray circle with a “1” at its centre, will show on voice messages that will self-destruct on the finish of the recording — so you may all the time have the opportunity to inform if you happen to can hear to a recording a number of occasions
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“For reading out your credit card details to a friend, or when you’re planning a surprise, you can now also share sensitive information over voice message with added peace of mind,” WhatsApp introduced in its weblog submit in regards to the new function. “For consistency with View Once photos and videos, View Once voice messages are clearly marked with the ‘one-time’ icon and can only be played one time.”
You can inform every time {a photograph}, video, or voice memo has been set to “View Once” because it’ll have the icon (a gray circle with a “1” on the centre) on the message bubble. That method, you may all the time have loads of warning that you have solely received one likelihood to hear to the message earlier than it is gone ceaselessly.
When making ready to ship your personal voice notes, you may want to faucet the “1” icon to the correct of the waveform throughout the recording course of. If it is already been despatched, it is too late to change the standing of the message.
As all the time, WhatsApp will be rolling out its newest function incrementally over the approaching weeks. Unlike the latest increase to picture high quality on WhatsApp, which is simply out there on iPhone in the mean time, the auto-destruct function for voice messages is coming to iOS and Android concurrently.
WhatsApp is owned by Meta, the identical mother or father firm behind manufacturers like Facebook and Instagram.
We’ve seen no scarcity of thrilling new updates for WhatsApp customers in latest months, with shiny new desktop apps for each Windows and macOS, the power to begin the Voice Chats function with out ringing in massive group chats, six new built-in reactions to reply to a WhatsApp Status, and extra.
