WhatsApp to Introduce New Features

WhatsApp may soon be introducing new features and the features are rumoured to be launching next year, Sky News has said.

According to the news platform, the first of the new features include Instagram Reels. Although, weeks back, WhatsApp watchers, WABetaInfo, had said that WhatsApp could one day feature Instagram Reels.

“It is thought that Reels would have a dedicated space on the WhatsApp app. This could be part of Meta’s plan to merge all the big social networking apps that it owns.” The WhatsApp watcher once said.

It is also believed that no time limit on the ‘delete for everyone’ button is one of the features that is expected to be added.

One common complaint about WhatsApp is that you only get a certain amount of time to delete a message in a chat for everyone. After 68 minutes and 16 seconds, your message will be there forever and you can only delete it for yourself. This is set to change very soon.

On the other hand, there are claims that WhatsApp is working on a logout feature. The feature would be in keeping with the multi-device update as you could log out on one device but remain logged in on another. This feature has been spotted and being tested in the beta version of WhatsApp, Sky News added.

The other feature is hiding from specific contacts. You can currently hide the time you were last on WhatsApp but you can not hide it from specific contacts.

The company is said to be changing this so when you go to change your “Last Seen” settings you will see an option for “My Contacts Except”.

We are still, however, waiting for an official statement from WhatsApp.