WhatsApp for iPhone Starts Getting ‘View Once’ Feature for Images, Videos

WhatsApp for iPhone now permits you to ship photographs and movies that may solely be considered as soon as by recipients. The brand new change is at present rolling out to the iPhone customers by means of a brand new WhatsApp model that’s accessible for obtain by means of the App Retailer. The replace additionally modifications the fashion of in-app message notifications. WhatsApp has been testing the ‘view as soon as’ function for a while to basically allow photographs and movies to vanish from the chat after they’re considered by the recipient. Nonetheless, it would not prohibit individuals from holding a file of the media content material by merely taking their screenshots.

The anticipated ‘view as soon as’ ephemeral messaging function has began rolling out by means of WhatsApp for iPhone model 2.21.150 in India. When you get the function, it is possible for you to to allow the disappearing of the picture or video earlier than sending them to your contacts by tapping the brand new ‘1′ icon that seems subsequent to the caption bar.

Photographs and movies which might be being shared utilizing the ‘view as soon as’ function will not be seen within the chat the place they had been despatched as soon as the recipient exits the media viewer. The media content material can even not be saved to the recipient’s Photographs or Gallery, and so they cannot ahead them by means of the app. Nonetheless, recipients can nonetheless take a screenshot of the ‘view as soon as’ photographs or seize these movies by utilizing the default display screen recording function.

WhatsApp has been testing the feature since at least September 2020 to let customers make their photographs and movies disappear from the app as soon as it’s considered by the recipients. It additionally entered the beta testing phase for each Android and iOS gadgets in late June. The Fb-owned app additionally brought it to WhatsApp Web for some customers final month.

Alongside the ‘view as soon as’ function, the up to date WhatsApp for iPhone brings the brand new fashion of in-app message notifications that removes the muddle and brings extra focus to the message content material.

WhatsApp has clearly talked about within the launch notes that the brand new options will roll out over the approaching weeks. This implies that you could be not obtain them on the first look and might need to attend for a number of days to get them in your Apple system. We had been additionally not be capable of see the ‘view as soon as’ function accessible on our iPhone gadgets, although the up to date in-app notification fashion was there on one in every of our items.

In the meantime, you possibly can download the newest WhatsApp launch in your iPhone by going by means of the App Store. It’s suitable with all iPhone fashions working iOS 10.0 and later.