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WhatsApp to permit customers to share voice notes in standing updates
Wednesday January 18 2023
WhatsApp, owned by Fb mum or dad agency Meta, plans to roll out new characteristic for Android customers. FILE PHOTO | AFP
The Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp plans to roll out a brand new characteristic permitting customers to share voice notes as standing updates.
This was reported by WhatsApp beta tracker WABetaInfo on Wednesday, stating the characteristic can be accessible within the app’s newest model.
“WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.2.8: what’s new? WhatsApp is releasing the flexibility to share voice notes through standing updates to some fortunate beta testers!” stated WABetaInfo in a Wednesday replace.
The messaging app will give management to customers over their voice recordings by enabling them to discard a recording earlier than sharing it.
Identical to within the case of video standing updates, the utmost recording time for a voice observe can be restricted to 30 seconds, and the updates can be end-to-end encrypted, which means that solely folks chosen throughout the privateness settings will have the ability to pay attention in.
The voice updates will disappear after 24 hours, however customers may have the choice of deleting them for everybody earlier than the expiry of the interval.
At present, WhatsApp customers can solely share images, movies, written texts and hyperlinks with their contacts by the standing characteristic.
