WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.22.11.16.
What’s new in this update? WhatsApp is working on a new introduction to disappearing messages, for a future update!
| Common questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| Name of the feature? | Introduction for disappearing messages |
| Status? | Under development |
| Availability? | WhatsApp is working on bringing the new introduction to disappearing messages in a future update of the app. |
| I’ve installed this update but I don’t see the new introduction to disappearing messages. Why? | Since this feature is under development, it has not been released to beta testers but you can discover a preview in this article. |
| Previous news? | WhatsApp beta for Android 2.22.11.13: what’s new? WhatsApp is rolling out some small changes to the interface when creating text status updates! |
WhatsApp keeps working on disappearing messages by adding new features and improvements. After developing a feature that lets people set multiple chats to disappear at once (available at a later date), WhatsApp is now working on a new introduction to disappearing messages to be released in a future update:
You can notice that those strings are still not ready in this introduction, so it may be complicated to understand what the company is talking about, but let’s analyze this screenshot together. We can see a header image about disappearing messages and three icons, but let’s focus on the last one: the bookmark image is about keeping disappearing messages even after their expiration.
Probably you might be wondering why an introduction requires to be marked as a feature under development: since the new introduction mentions the ability to keep disappearing messages, WhatsApp cannot show it to users since this feature is still not available.
You can understand that this introduction will probably show up after the release of the feature to keep disappearing messages in a future update. When there are further details, there will be another changelog on this website.
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