9 Changes and Features coming to WhatsApp in 2022
WhatsApp owned by Meta (formerly Facebook) is working on either new features or changes in previous features. Following changes are expected to be launched in WhatsApp in the year 2022.
WhatsApp is a messaging and calling application that is widely used all over the world, with over 2 Billion active users. WhatsApp is also used for business purposes, with an additional service called Business WhatsApp. Business WhatsApp is used to enhance business over WhatsApp. Any user can do their business with the help of Business WhatsApp.
WhatsApp is growing significantly due to its enormous features of messages, audio calls, video calls, status, group chats, delete messages, disappearing messages and much more.
For improved user quality and user satisfaction, Whasadds new features to WhatsApp. Detail of new features that are expected to be launched in 2022 are discussed below.
LAST SEEN AND BLUE TICKS ON READ MESSAGES FOR SELECTED USERS
In WhatsApp, users can view the last seen means the last online time of their contacts. But now, in a new feature, WhatsApp will allow users to hide their last seen to selected users in their contact list. Using this new feature, a user can hide his last seen to chosen contacts in his contact list. Before, WhatsApp had a Read Receipts feature for the whole contact list. However, the new feature hides blue ticks for selected users, and a user can hide the blue tick on seen messages for some friends.
PLAYBACK CONTROL FOR AUDIO MESSAGE
WhatsApp has a feature of sending voice messages to users. If the voice message is too long, the user already has an option of fast play voice message at the speed of 1.5X and 2X. But now WhatsApp is working on slowing down the speed of voice messages. In this new feature, users can slow the playback speed like 0.5X.
MESSAGE REACTION
Message reaction is already available on Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram. Now WhatsApp is also introducing the message reaction feature. The word “Message Reaction” means users can react with emojis to personal or group chat messages.
NO TIME LIMIT FOR DELETE FOR EVERYONE
Users are already using this feature, “delete for everyone” with a time limit of 68 minutes and 16 seconds only. Between the mentioned time, a user can delete sent messages with delete for everyone. Furthermore, these messages will not appear in the chat to everyone. To increase the time for deleting messages for everyone, WhatsApp plans to set no time limit for this feature to delete messages for everyone even after one month. There would be no time limit for this feature in the future.
EXCEED THE TIME LIMIT FOR DISAPPEARING MESSAGES
