As per a report by WABetaInfo, the new Kept Messages feature will be helpful to users when they want to keep some messages from visible forever for everyone in a group chat. If users keep a disappearing message, it would not disappear from the chat even after expiring
Meta owned WhatsApp is popular for bringing innovation to its features consistently. This time, the instant messaging platform has introduced a new feature called ‘Kept Messages’.
What Is Kept Message Feature?
WhatsApp’s latest feature can be used to keep messages from disappearing. The feature has appeared for some Android users running the latest beta version of both WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business. You can attempt to try it for yourself by downloading the WhatsApp beta from the Play Store.
How It Works?
Whenever a user decides to keep a disappearing message, it will no longer vanish from the chat even after its expiration. However, users will still be in control over these messages as they can be deleted at any time. All kept messages will be listed in this section. This will help all users in a chat to easily find them later.
However, the feature is currently under Beta testing and is available for specific beta testers including the ones who are on the latest version of WhatsApp business (v.2.23.4.10). The platform will roll out this feature to all users in the upcoming updates.
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When this feature becomes live, WhatsApp might also not allow users to mark messages as starred. The app may also remove the starred messages section within chat info for disappearing chats. Users won’t be able to add messages that are going to disappear in the starred section.
Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp keeps adding the latest features to improve user experience. Now, WhatsApp starts rolling out the “kept message” feature by which users will be allowed to keep the disappearing messages in group chats forever unless someone deletes them.
WABetaInfo spotted the “Kept messages” option on the profile info page in a recent beta. This is where you’ll find all the disappearing messages that you’ve saved. Everyone involved in that particular chat (like in a group) will be able to see this section to access these messages, but that continued access also means that anyone can still manually delete them
As per a report by WABetaInfo, the new Kept Messages feature will be helpful to users when they want to keep some messages from visible forever for everyone in a group chat. If users keep a disappearing message, it would not disappear from the chat even after expiring.
Notably, every member of the group will be able to control the kept messages and these can be deleted by anyone at any time. The feature can come handy when users need to check their important messages at any point of time.
As of now, the new Kept Messages feature is available for some select beta testers who are using WhatsApp Business (v2.23.4.10).
The app is reportedly planning to bring the ability to transcribe voice notes in the future.
According to a WABetaInfo report, the feature was discovered in the latest WhatsApp beta for iOS 23.3.0.73 update. Sharing a screenshot of the upcoming feature, the report says that WhatsApp will add an introduction screen to explain when the transcription is not available. As per the shared image, transcripts will not be available when no words are recognized in the voice note or are set to a different language.
The report says that the voice note transcription on WhatsApp will always be performed locally on the device. Users may be asked to download relevant language packs which will never be shared with WhatsApp or Apple. This means that the content of the message will be exclusive to you only. However, the feature may only work on recent versions of iOS.
In other news, WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature that will allow WhatsApp desktop users to share photos and videos in their original quality. At present, images shared by WhatsApp compressed by default, thus impacting their quality. The new feature will allow users to send images in their original quality, preserving their resolution and clarity.
Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp keeps adding the latest features to improve user experience. Now, WhatsApp starts rolling out the “kept message” feature by which users will be allowed to keep the disappearing messages in group chats forever unless someone deletes them.
