whatsapp It already allowed you to pin chats to your home screen, and starting today it also offers you the option pin messages in a conversation. A feature that makes it clear that, like many times in the past, the Meta application has once again been “inspired” by Telegram. The new feature is already rolling out worldwide, the company announced Tuesday.
You can select a specific message in any chat and pin it to the top. This way you can avoid using a search engine and have addresses, emails, dates or any relevant data at hand. What you pin will be highlighted in chat for 24 hours, 7 days or a month.depending on which of the three options you choose.
It’s pretty simple: to pin a message, just long press on it and then select Pin from the pop-up menu. Then you can choose the duration and that’s it. You can not only highlight texts; You can do the same with surveys, images and even emojis, WhatsApp explained in a statement.
“This will help users save time so they can more easily find the messages that interest them most,” the Meta-owned company said. WhatsApp group admins can also tag messages. Additionally, if they wish, they can enable this option so that all participants can do the same. End-to-end encryption persists when you pin something.
Pin messages and other WhatsApp news
If you pin a message in a WhatsApp group chat, a notification will be sent to everyone in the conversation indicating the action and who performed it. Users will not be able to see a pinned post if they join a group after it has been pinned. And also if they lost or deleted their chat history or deleted a message before it was published.
You can “unpin” a message at any time. If you don’t do this, it will be automatically deleted after the specified period. The new tool works in the mobile application, on the computer and on the Internet.
There have already been rumors that this feature will be released this year. While WhatsApp has confirmed that it is rolling it out to all users, these changes usually take some time. Sometimes a few days or weeks after the announcement. Of course: be sure to update the application.
This update joins two others announced in recent weeks that will also be rolled out gradually to all users. One of them allows you to send audio files or voice notes that will disappear as soon as the recipient hears them. These will function as a unique photo and video display that the app launched in 2021. “You will be able to share confidential information via voice messages with greater peace of mind,” the company emphasized. Credit card numbers, for example.
The second is also related to the security feature. WhatsApp has launched a “secret code” – another way to protect messages and make them harder to find if someone else gains access to your phone. The new tool allows set a unique password for the chats you need, different from the one you use to unlock your phone. or to configured biometric parameters.
Source: Hiper Textual
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