WhatsApp killer upgrade just revealed — here's what's new

WhatsApp killer upgrade but revealed — here's what's new

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WhatsApp is expanding its feature set in a big way. And while many people use the Facebook-endemic app to send text messages dorsum and along, the latest addition targets those who create and send voice messages via Whatsapp.

Specifically, WhatsApp will add a review button that volition permit y'all listen to the voice message y'all've recorded before sending it. That'south co-ordinate to WABetaInfo, which reports that the characteristic isn't yet bachelor for the public just all the same.

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WhatsApp has offered such a feature already, but WABetaInfo notes that it'south rather difficult to use as you had to switch to different sections of the phonation bulletin in order to review it. Instead, WhatsApp will add a review push button that lets you decide whether to discard the message or send information technology.

whatsapp voice text review feature — The Review push button in an upcoming WhatsApp release (Epitome credit: WABetaInfo)

This latest feature follow on a previous enhancement to voice letters in WhatsApp that lest users adjust playback speeds when listening to messages they've received. That characteristic's patently with beta testers.

In that location isn't any sort of release date set for the feature just yet, but it's likely coming for users on both iOS and Android in the near future. Given that information technology'south been a fleck of a adventure equally to what a phonation bulletin has sounded like in the past for WhatsApp users reliant on this type of messaging, it's a boon for anyone who sends a lot of vocalism messages to their WhatsApp friends. Beingness able to decide if in that location's some sort of feedback, cut-off vocalization, or other problem will make it simpler for users to communicate.

WhatsApp hasn't revealed any futurity plans for the option but yet, but when it introduces features like this i, you can bet there are likely others that aren't far away. We'll have to look and run into what's still coming downward the pipeline when this characteristic is finally out in the open for everyone to test out.

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