WhatsApp, an instant messaging app owned by meta is working on developing new features to enhance user experience and their privacy.
Here is the list of features Meta is testing out and might get rolled out in an updated version of WhatsApp.
- Discreetly Exit groups.
This update will allow users to discreetly exit groups. As per WABetaInfo, the feature is currently under development and will be coming to a future update of the app. With the new feature, when a user leaves a group, only group admins will be notified of the exit. Other participants of the group will not be notified.
- Edit message feature
This feature will allow users to edit messages once they have been sent. sometimes, autocorrect and typos or even grammatical errors might comply with inadequate information to the receiver. With this feature, the sent messages would be edited. Though this feature is in a testing phase.
- Save disappearing messages
The introduction to the feature of disappearing messages was done in order to increase privacy. Users who use the disappearing messages feature might have some messages that are needed to be saved. WhatsApp might fix this issue with a new feature that will allow users to save and keep select messages for later reference even when they’re chatting in disappearing mode.
- Double verification code feature
Whatsapp has features that protect the users’ data and account information. WhatsApp has a two-step authentication when logging into an account. WhatsApp feature update tracker, WABetaInfo, is reporting that WhatsApp is developing a double verification code feature that will –going forward— require all users to type in a second code for accessing this account. The need for a second code is said to stem from the growing cases of copying where users might be tricked into sharing their verification codes and getting their accounts hijacked by miscreants. The report added that the said this WhatsApp feature is under development, currently, and is nowhere to be rolled out to the public soon.
