“Keep Chat” and message transcription, the new WhatsApp

The application Whatsapp released a number of improvements over the last few days focused on chats. The platform seeks to solve the queries of its more than 2 billion users introduce changes to temporary messages and a new automatic transcriptionwithout the need for additional downloads.

The first news was announced by the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerbergwho through his Facebook profile has unveiled the “Keep in Chat” function, which allows people who have temporary messages enabled to save the ones they need most without fear of being automatically deleted.

Whether it’s an address or an important reminder, supported by WhatsApp, your users don’t have to choose between keeping everything or nothing and can have more flexibility if they want to use temporary messages.

With temporary messages, WhatsApp ensures that conversations don’t have to be available all the time, as is the case with in-person chats. While this extra layer of privacy protects messages, there are users who try to maintain an occasional vocal note or some important information.

The “Stay in chat” function enables the possibility of keep the texts that you will need later, with a special superpower for whoever sent the message. Naturally, the admin will have to choose whether others in the chat can keep it for later.

For this to work, WhatsApp promises to let you know when someone saves a sent message, and the user can reverse the decision. If the choice is that nobody can save the message, this decision will be finalthen no one else will be able to keep it and it will be removed when the timer runs out.

Messages saved in WhatsApp will display a bookmark icon next to them and will be organized by chat, in the “Saved Messages” folder.

Transcription of automatic messages

WhatsApp, on the other hand, has begun in recent days to test a function expected by many users: the automatic transcription of audio messages within the application.

This audio-to-text converter feature has been released for a small group of iPhone users in a few countries, including Argentina.

So far, some users who have tried this novelty have assured that when it works it works very well, but there are times when it doesn’t transcribe. This is because you don’t understand what is being said or said in a language that is not currently enabled.

The big plus is that all transcripts will be processed on the device and will not be shared with WhatsApp or Apple servers, prioritizing privacy terms.

A few weeks ago, WhatsApp had announced new security measures with the aim of preventing some of the cybercrimes that have gained the most ground in recent times: account theft, identity theft and virtual scams.

Up to now, Meta’s messaging platform has various layers of security to protect the privacy of its users, mainly the protection of personal messages with end-to-end encryption; although this shielding is not enough to thwart the changing plans of cybercriminals.