WhatsApp is rolling out a brand new characteristic that lets customers pin messages in chats to simply discover essential conversations. This characteristic permits customers to spotlight a particular message in each particular person and group chats and pin it to the highest of the chat. A message will be pinned within the chat for as much as 30 days. All types of messages, together with textual content, polls and emojis, will be pinned. Nonetheless, customers can pin just one chat at a time.
Meta-owned on the spot messaging app WhatsApp announced the addition of Pinned Messages through a put up on X (previously Twitter) on Tuesday (December 13). The characteristic permits customers to spotlight a particular message in any ongoing one-on-one and group chat and pin it to the highest of the chat. This could be supreme for stating essential particulars reminiscent of tackle, date or telephone quantity and offering fast reference to older messages.
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Customers can pin a chat by lengthy urgent on a dialog and deciding on Pin from the menu. A message will be pinned within the chat for both 24 hours, seven days, or one month, however seven days is the default period. Any sort of content material, together with textual content messages, information, emojis, photos, polls or movies will be pinned. In WhatsApp teams, admins can determine whether or not to permit pinning of messages to solely the admins or members. As all the time, customers will have the ability to launch these messages every time they need.
WhatsApp’s opponents within the messaging house Telegram and iMessage already provide a pin message characteristic. This replace was beforehand seen on WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.21.4.
Meta has launched a number of options to its on the spot messaging platform not too long ago. WhatsApp not too long ago introduced the View As soon as choice for voice messages. The characteristic permits customers to ship a voice message that disappears when the recipient listens to it. WhatsApp can also be reportedly engaged on a brand new characteristic that can let customers share HD pictures and movies of their standing updates. Moreover, it’s mentioned to be growing an non-compulsory characteristic that would let customers share WhatsApp statuses on to Instagram.
