WhatsApp introduces new features

Coimbatore: Being one of the most used messaging apps around the globe, WhatsApp has introduced two new features in a bid to make it more competitive with the likes of Telegram and Instagram,

Now, users can enable disappearing messages function on WhatsApp. New messages sent in individual or group chats will disappear after seven days but this feature will not work if the message is forwarded. Enabling this setting will not affect the messages previously sent or received in chat. In a group chat, only the admins will get to use the feature. The disappearing messages can only be enabled for a particular chat. You have to tap the contact’s name and then find the feature, and then just tap On/Off. Once enabled, it will automatically delete the messages from the chat thread but might remain in the phone storage if the back-up option is also enabled and managed to pick the message that was intended to be deleted.

The feature will arrive both to Android and iOS but the update is gradual - some users might be getting it, others might have to wait a little bit more.

Next up, get more free space on WhatsApp, a problem we all usually crib about. There is going to be an improved storage management tool that will allow more detailed control over what is stored in the phone and what is deleted, with filters for size or age. Empty your entire media files on this app at once or after reviewing, whatever you want to delete by using WhatsApp’s new storage management tool.

Users will have a better idea what exactly takes so much room and will be able to manage their storage, especially where affordable smartphones with less internal memory are preferred and sold.