WhatsApp to bring new features that make voice messages more interactive

Sean — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:10:24 +0000

WhatsApp is constantly adding and updating its platform to improve the user experience of its large userbase. And now, the latest addition seems to place a focus on making voice messages more interactive.

The popular messaging platform, which is owned by Meta, is currently testing new features like the message reactions, poll feature, and multi device support as well. But the new features do not end there, as it is also working on bringing additional ones that helps improve voice interactions. The improvements will be thanks to updates like draft preview, ability to pause and resume recording, out of chat playback, resuming playback, and even waveform visualization.

Sending voice messages on WhatsApp has been a thing since 2013. However, while it isn’t the major focus of the platform, the company stated that an average of 7 billion voice messages are sent in a day. So, it is clearly a popular function of the app and it isn’t surprising that the company would seek to improve it even further. One of the upcoming features include Out of Chat Playback feature that lets users listen to voice messages even if they are outside of the original chat. This has been a highly requested feature and is a quality of life change.

Additionally, users will soon be able to pause and resume recordings as well. Another new feature is that one can first listen to their voice messages before sending them, through its new Draft preview feature. Lastly, the Waveform Visualization gives you a visual representation of the sound of the voice message. All of these features should roll out on the live build in a couple of weeks.

WhatsApp will allow you to pause voice recordings soon, Community feature also in the works

Zohaib Ahmed — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:30:56 +0000

WhatsApp has been working on improving its user experience further with the addition of a few new features. It was recently revealed that the chat app will be getting a feature to listen to voice messages globally, with different playback speeds. And now, WhatsApp Beta Info has published a new report about the ability to pause voice recordings.

The report shows that WhatsApp is working on a feature that will allow users to pause voice messages while they’re recording them. The feature is useful because it will allow you to fit your message within a single voice message without forcing you to stop and record a new one.

As seen on the demo video above, there is a new pause button on the voice recording panel, tapping which the recording immediately comes to a halt. It can then very conveniently be resumed as well using the same button.

The WhatsApp pause voice recordings feature has currently only hit a few users on the app’s beta channel on iOS but a wider rollout for all beta users is expected soon. WhatsApp Beta Info has confirmed that the same feature for Android is in the works as well.

Recently, an APK teardown by XDA revealed that WhatsApp is also working on a new “Community” feature that will co-exist with the existing Group feature. XDA speculates that a community could possibly host several WhatsApp Groups within itself (or be the other way round), as well as be a dedicated Channel for admins to message. Posts within could possibly host threaded responses, not unlike the kind that Telegram allows in its channel posts.

This was as per WhatsApp’s latest beta, v2.21.21.6 that came with several new strings that point towards the upcoming Community feature.

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WhatsApp to bring new features that make voice messages more interactive

WhatsApp will allow you to pause voice recordings soon, Community feature also in the works