WhatsApp would possibly quickly let you know what number of instances a message has been forwarded

WhatsApp may be in a course of to rollout a brand new characteristic to test what number of instances a message has been forwarded. The characteristic was first noticed in Android Beta 2.19.80 in March, and now an Indian Twitter person has shared a screenshot of the characteristic working for him.

The Fb-owned messaging platform launched the ‘forwarding’ label final yr to assist curb faux information. Throughout March 2019, WhatsApp submitted an Android Beta replace on Google which had two new options known as “Forwarding Information” and “Incessantly Forwarded”. Now as per the screenshot shared by a Twitter person @beingpunjabi (by way of FirstPost), WhatsApp’s forwarded message exhibits three choices – ‘Seen’, ‘Delivered’ and ‘Forwarded’ 1 time. Basically, it gives precise particulars of what number of instances a message has been forwarded.

One can test this info within the Message Information part. To entry this part, one simply must lengthy press on the despatched message. Then, choose the information (i) icon on high of the WhatsApp chat window. As of now, the characteristic appears to be in Beta stage solely. We couldn’t get it working within the steady model. Additionally, it’s unknown if the person who shared this piece of data was utilizing the Beta app or not. The characteristic hasn’t been rolled out to the Google Play replace as but. Beforehand, WhatsApp in Beta replace had additionally carried out a ‘regularly forwarded’ tag for messages which were forwarded greater than 5 instances.

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In the meantime, in a unique information from yesterday, the Fb-owned messaging providers went down for various customers. Whereas most of them had been in a position to ship throughout textual content messages, the issue occurred with picture downloading. Fb, WhatsApp and Instagram had been fast to acknowledge the issue, however it took virtually 9 hours for a repair.