Since 2020, WhatsApp has offered its users the ability to send short-lived messages, allowing you to have specific conversations that automatically disappear after a few days. According to reports from WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is now testing a feature that will allow you to prevent some of these messages from being lost.
Indeed, our colleagues managed to take a screenshot.A new section called “saved messages” in the latest beta version of the WhatsApp app. This is located below the contact information and, like Snapchat, should contain all the short-lived messages that users decide to save.
WhatsApp wants to prevent messages from being lost permanently
This feature was seen in: Beta version of WhatsApp for Android (v2.22.7.4). The ability to store messages that should be temporary may help some users better remember important information that could be conveyed in a short-lived conversation, but may also annoy other users.
Indeed, some users make full use of the ephemeral chat so that their messages are not saved. With this new feature, imagine if the receiver decides to hide a message the sender will be notifiedhowever, this can lead to situations where users no longer want to send short-lived messages because they fear they will be hidden by the other party.
Anyway, the new Kept Messages section is still in development, so it’s unclear when it will be available to all users. As is often the case, probably Wait a few months for this new feature to reach the stable version of the app.
Late last year, WhatsApp made some changes to its temporary messages. For example, users can enable ephemeral messages in all their conversations by default. New fade times are also available. Instead of all messages disappearing after 7 days, you can set a 90-day delay before they are deleted.
Source : WABetaInfo
