Audio in the states, in future updates. Bloomberg photo
WhatsApp might add a feature to allow use audio in the United States. This modification would allow, therefore, to be able to choose small sound tracks and make them remain for 24 hours.
As reported by the specialized site WABetaInfo, the latest beta version of the WhatsApp application for Android features a code which suggests that voicemails may soon be posted as a status for listening to your contacts.
The feature has not yet been released or available for beta, but a screenshot shared by WABetaInfo shows a microphone button along with text options, currently existing photos and videos to set your status.
So far you can send a voice note or audio file within a WhatsApp conversation, but you can’t. share them more widely with your contacts en masse. With the alternative of uploading them to states, this could change in order to be able to send massively.
The function of the audios in the states in WhatsApp. Photo WABetaInfo
Statuses on WhatsApp work in a similar way to Stories on Snapchat and Instagram – post a line of text, an image, or a short video visible to the people you’re connected with for 24 hours. If you wish, you can only show the status to a select number of your contacts.
Those time limits and privacy settings would presumably apply to voice status updates as well, although it remains to be seen exactly how they will appear within the app.
Insiders have doubts about its usefulness, since audios generate mixed reactions among users: some love them, others hate them and, no doubt, many abuse them.
WhatsApp would also add another feature to use multiple accounts
More than one account associated with a mobile phone. photo EFE
One of the biggest limitations of WhatsApp is that it cannot be used on more than one mobile phone. Although the profile can be linked to up to three other devices, none of them can be another smartphone. However, this may change soon as can be seen in the new beta of the well-known messaging application.
According to the specialized portal WABetaInfo, the developers of WhatsApp are working on a new mode, baptized as Companion Mode, which will allow you to connect a second device to your account. This new feature was seen in version 2.22.15.13 of the beta version of WhatsApp for Android.
In addition, the chat history will be copied directly to the phone of your choice. However, the portal warns that this process may take longer than expected.
Right now, WhatsApp users can use their account on a single device as well as on PC, Mac and Web. Thanks to this new mode, this range of possibilities will be expanded and can be used on two different phones. Therefore, it will be even closer to Telegram, which offers the ability to use the same account for multiple phones.
Before being available to everyone, the feature will still be under development and it will take a few weeks or months to be made available to all users.
Source: Clarin
